Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1880

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

Aesthetic dense all-over pattern of exotic foliage including a palm tree with tropical flowers and multiple varieties of leaves; single-motif long repeat in off-set columns; naturalistic block shading and strong dark and light outlining; color schemes of browns, yellows, and creams; metallic gold ground.

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