Vues d'Italie
date: label: Date
content: 1810–15
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Gabriel Charvet
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Twenty-two pieces of French scenic wallpaper showing views of Italy. Block-printed in distemper colors on joined sheets of handmade paper. The seventeen largest pieces of the paper form four scenes, together filling a space approximately 12 unnumbered small fragments of various sizes to be used in remounting the scenes. All mounted on modern paper and fabric. The mounting paper of a quality inferior to the rag paper of the wallpaper.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Wallcoverings Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Nesbitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1974-80-2-a/f
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Object Name
content: Scenic wallpaper
label: Type
content: Scenic wallpaper
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (a): 219.7 × 62.5 cm (7 ft. 2 1/2 in. × 24 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (b): 220.3 × 83.2 cm (7 ft. 2 3/4 in. × 32 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (e): 220.3 × 33.7 cm (7 ft. 2 3/4 in. × 13 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (f): 220 × 106.7 cm (7 ft. 2 5/8 in. × 42 in.)