Sidewall

Unknown Maker

Full width, giving slightly more than one repeat of slender vine pattern of conventionalized passion-flowers (roses), against secondary all-over pattern of foliation. Paper embossed with a pebbled figure. Printed in blue, green and tans, on grey-violet ground.

Credit: Gift of Edith and Maude Wetmore

c. 1875

Machine-printed, embossed paper

1939-45-7-a,b

Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020