Sidewall
Cooper Hewitt

Sidewall

ca. 1880

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

Aesthetic style design. Dense all-over pattern reminiscent of a Rococo brocade with a chinoiserie theme; foliage with stylized fir and palm trees from which partially emerges small sets of garden-path steps with rough-hewn wooden banister; naturalistic shading; color scheme is strongly yellowish with some red and pink highlighting on the flowers; light cream ground.

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