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Sidewall
Unknown1773–80
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Arabesque-style Chinoiserie. Alternating motifs in orange and dark green; pergola hung with bells played by man and boy in Chinese costume, surrounded by foliage and supporting floral and fruit festoons; an urn filled with flowers and scrolled acanthus. Printed on deep blue ground. Vertical rectangle of joined sheets of paper.
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Details
- Title: Sidewall
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1773–80
- Physical Dimensions: w470 x h660 cm
- Type: Sidewall
- Rights: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Medium: Block-printed on handmade paper
- Exhibitions: London, England, Victoria & Albert Museum/ The Art Council of Great Britain, "An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design. Designs from the Collection of Cooper-Hewitt, New York", June 14 - August 12, 1973.The Brooklyn Museum, "Art of Decoration. Drawings and Objects from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974.
- Dimensions: H x W: 66 x 47 cm (26 x 18 1/2 in.)
- Bibliography: Chronicle ill., v. 1, no. 4, April 1938, p. 130.London, England, Victoria & Albert Museum/ The Art Council of Great Britain, "An American Museum of Decorative Art and Design. Designs from the Collection of Cooper-Hewitt, New York", June 14 - August 12, 1973, cat. no. 206, p.99.The Brooklyn Museum, "Art of Decoration. Drawings and Objects from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum", December 18, 1973 - February 3, 1974, cat. no. 206, p.99.
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