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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

All-over pattern of naturalistic sprays of flowers and foliage; single-motif diamond-shaped repeat in off-set columns; color scheme of pinks, dark red, and light and dark greens; negative space filled with further stylized sprays of flowers in cream that irregularly overlap with more naturalistic foliage; ground is yellowish tan.

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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