Design for a Wallpaper Frieze
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Mouldings form a half circle and a framing band of it. Half a laural wreath surrounds a black sun in the half circle. a zigzag thread hands on beads from the upper moulding. In the framing band alternate white and grey oblongs, the latter ones showing an ornamentation. A plan hangs in the wedges. Mouldings, including a bead moulding, are on top.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- ca. 1810
- Accession Number
- 1909-13-60
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite, brush and paint on paper
- Dimensions
- 23.4 × 28.5 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1909-13-60
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47b81a3c6-c071-4c25-b23e-12c38b1b4127
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