Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1880

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

Aesthetic all-over pattern of scattered highly-stylized branches interspersed with stylized flowers; naïve, stencil-like quality; branches are laurel-like and emerge in straight lines from dotted intersections, forming irregular networks; centers of flowers also dotted; brown dots, beige leaves, branches, and petals on pale cream ground.

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