Project for a wallpaper frieze

1780–1800

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

The repeat consists of group of three girls and a boy, dancing, and two boys playing marbles. Trees, plants. At lower margin is frieze transposing the triglyph motif into rail and garland.

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Title: Project for a wallpaper frieze
Date Created: 1780–1800
Location Created: France
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/25058
Medium: Pen and ink, brush and gouache, oxydized white on paper
Credit line: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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France Gouache Ink Pen Watercolor painting