Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Temperate Zone: Alpine scene, in sequence left to right. a) Nine cows before two huts. Large waterfall; b) Five cows, one mostly white, before stone-based hut; c) Ten cows crossing bridge over waterfall, large single rock above cows; d) River landscape with distant valley. Six spruce trees in foreground, with berries and blossoms in immediate foreground; e) Clearing with single tree. Two goats, one in profile; f) Rocky landscape with cap-like peak on horizon. Single thin tree in upper third of panel; g) Desert: Large blue magvey cactus with yellow flower stalk. Printed on bottom of panels: "Les Zones par J. Zuber & Cie Rixheim, Alsace 1797-1909. No. 14 in rectangle". Full set of seven lengths.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Schuler
- Manufacturer
- Zuber & Cie, Rixheim, Alsace, France, founded 1797
- Designer
- Eugène Ehrmann, 1804 – 1896
- Georges Zipélius, 1808 – 1890
- Date
- 1909
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Rensselaer County Historical Society
- Medium
- block printed paper
- Dimensions
- 217 x 57 cm (85 7/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Object Name
- scenic panels
- Type
- scenic panels
