Design for Door and Overdoor with Fantastic Bird

A watercolor design showing a painted door with four raised panels and a rectangular overdoor panel. The overdoor is framed by a lattice border and decorated with a pale yellow ground, a red flower, green scrolling foliage, and a fantastic bird with a long curving neck and plumed tail.

Artist

Frederick Crace

Date

1802 or earlier

Medium

Brush and watercolor, graphite on white wove paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1218 × 2999 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum