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Project for the Painted Decoration of a Wall, with Alternate Suggestions
Unknown1835–50
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A dado is at the bottom, an entablature on top. The lower part of the design suggests horizontal rows of petal discs, with petals and palmettes in the wedges, for the panel. The upper part suggests alternate and staggered rows of naturalized fleur-de-lis leaves. 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 watercolors and graphite on white wove paper; incised lines
- Paper Support: White wove paper
- Inscribed: In graphite in bottom margin: "NFL Cabineth." Verso: in graphite: "Grien" (?), and at the bottom two lines which have been erased. Intelligible: "Hart....? Zimmer grau grass Rosetten / ...mit grüner Bordure."
- Exhibitions: Park Avenue Armory, New York. Winter Antiques Show, "Salute to Cooper-Hewitt Museum," January 21 - 30, 1972.
- Dimensions: 33.7 x 24.6 cm (13 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.)
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