Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Tall bandbox covered with wallpaper, printed with flowers with bright green leaves. Top of lid covered with matching paper, with rim of top covered in a small floral pattern on light green ground. The green pigment on the wallpaper appears to be arsenic.Manufacturer label pasted inside lid.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- J.G. Hunt
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Credit Line
- Gift of Staten Island Museum
- Medium
- Block-printed paper on pasteboard support
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 29.5 x 39.5 cm (11 5/8 x 11 5/8 x 15 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Bandbox
