Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Within an embossed cut-paper frame with floral decorations is a circular peep-hole, covered by silk gauze, through which two birds in gilt are seen against a blue ground. Velvet cording and flowers of shirred silk around edges, and cupids at top of embossed gilt paper.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- ca. 1850
- Accession Number
- 1931-94-73
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Greeting card
- Type
- Greeting card
- Medium
- Embossed cut paper, with silk, velvet, and satin additions
- Dimensions
- 20.2 × 13.2 cm (7 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
- used in
- USA
- made in
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-94-73
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46cdad8ea-305c-40a5-b1a1-f188d67124db
