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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.

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Aesthetic style pattern with single-motif diamond-shaped repeat of scattered vine-like branches with five-petaled flowers and fig leaves in off-set horizontal rows; strong sense of movement toward bottom left; ground has effect similar to marbling with some of the marbling seemingly cutting over the branches; color scheme of light browns; yellow 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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