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 bunches of flowers and leafy vines and branches; large diamond-shaped repeat in off-set column; crude block-printing affect with attempts at naturalistic shading; color scheme of tan overlaid with white, dark-red, yellow, and bright-red highlighting; metallic gold ground.

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