Bandbox
Cooper Hewitt

Bandbox

ca. 1835

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

A woman wearing Grecian attire, possibly Nemesis, is racing in a chariot drawn by two griffons. The griffons have the upper body of an eagle and the lower body of a lion. An urn or ewer containing a single flower stem rests on its side beneath the beasts’ feet. Trees frame this vignette. Printed in pink, red and two shades of green on a blue ground.

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