Doric Ornamented [wood]
Under this name, it seems to have been a face cut in wood by Wells & Webb and shown in their 1854 catalog. It is shown in David Consuegra's American Type Designers and Designs (2004) , p. 259 (although I am not entirely certain that this showing isn't actually of the modern digital version, Zebrawood).
Consuegra also notes that Wells & Webb had a close working relationship with Bruce's New York Type Foundry. It is perhaps unsuprising, therefore, that this face appears in the Bruce foundry output. McGrew identifies this face as Bruce's Ornamented No. 847 of 1849 (in his discussion of Tuscan Ombree on p. 344). It also appears as [Two-Line Pica] Ornamented, No. 18 in An Abridged Specimen of Printing Types Made at Bruce's New-York Type-Foundry . (New-York: George Bruce's Son & Co., 1869.), p. 82 (PDF 175)
It also appears as [Two-Line Pica] Ornamented, No. 16 in the Cincinnati Type Foundry's specimens: Specimen and Price List of 1870 (p. 150 of the PDF) and Fifteenth Book of Specimens (Compact Edition) from the Cincinnati Type Foundry of 1882, p. 38 (p. 68 of the PDF).
The Ornamented No. 847 version of this face was copied in the Twentieth Century by Harry Weidemann as Tuscan Ombree (aka Ornate No. 4, Romantiques No. 2, or Carnival).
A digital version of this face, based on the Webb & Wells 1854 specimen, was released in 1994 by Adobe under the name Zebrawood [TM].
The continued popularity of this design, over two continents, three centuries, and three major type technologies quite escapes my no doubt insufficiently refined sensibilities.
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