Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1820

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

Incomplete vertical unit of design with figured scenes. Woman in swing hung between two trees, accompanied by man and woman; woman on donkey, accompanied by goat and dog, pointing to ruined building in marsh. Smaller vignettes of hunters and dogs. Printed in white, dark red and brown on neutral brown ground.

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