Sidewall

1840s

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Against a glazed white ground are printed regularly spaced clusters of conventionalized blossoms and foliage in two values of green, possibly arsenic. An all-over design of serpentine vines with small blossoms and foliage in gray is printed between the green clusters.

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Title: Sidewall
Date Created: 1840s
Location Created: USA
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/114045
Medium: Block-printed on paper
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Adrienne A. Sheridan

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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