Horizontal decorative border with black silhouetted stags and garlands of flowers between green and dark bands on pale paper.

Stag and Flower Pattern Frame, Bottom Section

A long horizontal decorative frieze shows black silhouetted stags and leaping animals alternating with garlands of leaves and flowers beneath bands of green and dark stripes. The strip is printed on pale paper with faint plate tone, and its upper edge is ruled with fine lines.

Artist: Theodore Roussel
Date: 1897–99
Medium: Etching and soft ground in black, yellow-brown metallic, and green-blue with plate tone, on ivory Japanese paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 558 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1899).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg

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