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Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Parallel double frieze, running the length of the paper. Above a row of blue cockscombs with khaki flock leaves on a lacy patterned ground in shades of gray, is a torus-like border with khaki flock ribbon decoration.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Date
1820–24
Credit Line
Gift of Josephine Howell, Inc.
Medium
Block printed and flocked on handmade paper
Dimensions
109 x 51.5 cm (42 15/16 x 20 1/4 in.)
Type
Wallcoverings
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