Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

1820–30

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

Vertically striped ground of blue to green to yellow, with over-printed symmetrical pattern of flowers on curving branches, diagonally striped with white. Ombre, also called irise or rainbow paper.

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