Design for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers

A small scattered arrangement of violets, with purple blossoms, buds, and round green leaves, is painted across a yellow ground in a diamond-shaped pattern. Faint graphite guidelines radiate from the center, and a handwritten number appears at the upper right of the sheet.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

4000 × 3372 px

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