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Sidewall
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Sidewall

ca. 1880 · Machine-printed paper

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

About this work

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.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineSidewall. ca. 1880. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Jones and Erwin, Inc.. CC0.

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