Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1880

Machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Aesthetic style pattern with single-motif diamond-shaped repeat of scattered vine-like branches with five-petaled flowers and fig leaves in off-set horizontal rows; strong sense of movement toward bottom left; ground has effect similar to marbling with some of the marbling seemingly cutting over the branches; color scheme of light browns; yellow ground.

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