Grisaille wallpaper with attached border

Victorian Wallpaper • 1780

Grisaille wallpaper with attached border, 1780

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Grisaille wallpaper with attached border. Wallpaper contains verious landscape views, ducks, peacocks, urns, birds. Border has gray ground with simple continuous waved stem band with foliage, which appears to have been produced by printing with same block, one in white, one in black, register irregular. Narrow straight edging line. Simplified isolated seven-petaled flower at regular intervals in each space created by curving of stem-bud. Block-printed paper