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Project for the Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions

Unknown1835–50

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

A dado is at the bottom, a high entablature with a colored ovolo at the bottom, on top. For the panel are suggested horizontal rows of discs with leaf boughs in the wedges, in the lower part of the design horizontal alternate rows of circles and wreaths, respectively. The neighboring motifs are to be intertwined. Bough rosettes are in the centers. Framing similar to 1940-120-9.

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  • Title: Project for the Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 1835–50
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims
  • Medium: Brush and watercolor and graphite on white laid paper
  • Paper Support: White laid paper
  • Exhibitions: Park Avenue Armory, New York. Winter Antiques Show, "Salute to Cooper-Hewitt Museum," January 21 - 30, 1972.
  • Dimensions: 33.3 x 24.2 cm (13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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