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The Hawes

Henry Butler1946

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Chinese rococo paper. Twisted, gold, symmetric framework encloses two landscape scenes. One contains a scene of a Chinese man rowing a small bark, behind is a figure crossing a curved bridge with a temple-like building in the background; the alternating scene contains a Chinese building on stilts approached by a board walk. Printed in gold and brown on a white ground.

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  • Title: The Hawes
  • Creator: Henry Butler
  • Date Created: 1946
  • Physical Dimensions: w570 x h1140 cm
  • Type: Sidewall
  • Rights: Gift of Rose J. Dirksen
  • Medium: Block-printed on paper
  • Inscribed: Printed in right selvedge: "The Hawes" and "Reg.d. No. 616647".
  • Dimensions: 114 x 57 cm (44 7/8 x 22 7/16 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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