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Sidewall
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Sidewall

ca. 1820 · Block-printed on handmade paper

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineSidewall. ca. 1820. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Grace Lincoln Temple. CC0.

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