Les Grands Hommes
date: label: Date
content: 1856–57
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Jules Desfossé, French, active 1851 - 1863
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Wallpaper panel showing full length view of George Washington in cutaway coat with epaulettes and a sword. At his feet are a conventionalized cannon and three cannon balls. All supported by shallow circular base. Imitation of statuary. Of the series "America's Heroes" [Les Grands Hommes] which also includes Franklin, Lafayette and Jefferson. Printed on light wood grain background.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, 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 Dr. Gertrude Bilhuber in memory of her father Ernst Bilhuber
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1949-78-1
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Object Name
content: Decorative panel
label: Type
content: Decorative panel
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block-printed paper
label: Dimensions
content: 102.5 x 49 cm (40 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)