Sidewall
date: label: Date
content: 1795–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Composed of two scenes. First: Mercury, holding a winged staff entwined with the two serpents (caduceus) and wearing a broad-brimmed winged hat (petasus), winged sandals, and a dot pattern cape, hands a lyre to another figure, possibly Apollo, wearing a laurel wreath. Figures are on a landscape background with palm trees. Second: draped fabric with tassel and fringe including elements of a globe, telescope, possibly a compass, and a ring of stars. Fabric hangs from an anthemion or palmette. Printed in shades of blue, shades of green, and shades of brown on a blue ground. "a" is composed of three parts.
label: Description
content: H# 353
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Wallcoverings Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Josephine Howell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1972-42-199-a/g
objectType: label: Type
content: Wallcoverings
label: Type
content: Sidewall
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Block-printed on handmade paper
label: Dimensions
content: 90 x 58 cm (35 7/16 x 22 13/16 in.)