Object Number 1969.1101

Object Name

Wall covering (Wallpaper fragment)

Category

Works on Paper

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Oliver Sage (Manufacturer and seller)
An Oliver Sage was born in New Haven in 1807. An "Oliver S. Sage" is listed in "Berham's New Haven Directory" for 1849-51 as "clerk 29 Union Warf, Bds. 28 Meadow".

Place of Origin

New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America

Date

1840-1860

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; Lower left on obverse (upside down); MANUFACTURED/ AND SOLD BY/ OLIVER SAGE/ New Haven, Conn.

Materials

Distemper; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Woodblock

Dimensions (inches)

14.75 (H) , 21.125 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

37.46 (H) , 53.657 (W)

Measurement Notes

OH and OW. Size of motif: H 2.5 in. (6.4 cm); W 2.25 in. (5.7 cm).

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Lynn, Catherine. 1980 Wallpaper in America, From the Seventeenth Century to World War I. 533 p.
• Published as fig. 12-22, p. 284.