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
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