Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

Unknown Maker

Elevation of a room. Dado and pilasters in marble. Capitals and molding details picked out in gold. A Wall painted with a square panel showing a landscape. Guilloche decoration at entablature. Above, a hemisphere painted with figures and birds in the sky.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors

c. 1825

Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper

1901-39-1529

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