The Livingston
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Large medallion of a pastoral scene. A young woman is feeding pidgeons, a lamb is beside her. An old ruined tower is in the distance. All enclosed in a frame of rococo scrolls and foliage. Garden tools and doves are also in the elaborate design which is suggestive of Watteau and Louis XV period. This paper is reproduced from an old one hung about 100 years ago in the old Livingston Manor House, Catskill, New York. Printed on reverse: "No. 280 CB. The Livingston".
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Birge Company, Inc.
- 1935
- Accession Number
- 1945-12-16
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Object Name
- Sidewall
- Type
- Sidewall
- Medium
- Machine-printed on paper
- Dimensions
- 78.5 x 49 cm (30 7/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Wallcoverings Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1945-12-16
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c0957749-b44f-4662-8790-f8b17a77aa0a
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