Little Boy Blue

1865–1953 Grace Lincoln Temple • 1890

Little Boy Blue, 1890

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Children's wallpaper with vignettes illustrating the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue". Framework of scrolled corn (maize) leaves enclosing four vignettes: Boy Blue with horn, Boy Blue asleep, a cow, two sheep - with single ear and cluster of three ears of corn. Printed in yellow, green, blue and brown on a blue stippled ground. Vertical rectangle, a full width giving slightly more than one repeat. Machine-printed paper