Design for a Painted Wall Decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1875–80
name: label: Artist
content: Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The upper part of design cut out along the outlines, painted on top. Children seated upon the floor and the balustrade of a platform and kneeling upon it playing musical instruments, while other children listen. Winged women stand laterally, their outside wings raised and sheltering cherubim. The platform stands, apparently, before a painted window.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Walter Shirlaw
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1912-16-85
objectType: label: Type
content: mural designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black, purple, and rose crayons pastel on grey paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.5 × 29.1 cm (12 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.)