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Wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve and jacket front.A set of eighteen remarkable buttons each feature a small painting of groups of people of mixed races in a British West Indies island, then called Dominica, now Haiti and Santo Domingo. The artist, subjects and traditional history all collide to make the buttons an extraordinary combination of artistic significance, social history, and inventive design use. buttons, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti, Brunias, West Indies, jacket, scenes, landscapes, costume, textiles, hats |
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Fresco PapersScenic wallpapers were the epitome of block-printed wallpapers, requiring thousands of wood blocks to print a non-repeating scene that could wrap a room in a continuous landscape view. Scenic wallpapers were introduced around 1804 and remained popular as new scenes were added until the 1860s. Around the 1840s, a new style emerged that altered the scenic landscape format through the introduction of decors, also known as fresco papers. Alpine, cow, wallcovering, fresco, decor, landscapes |
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Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Drawings in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt MuseumPublication design: Sue Koch drawings, paintings, landscapes, American, 19th century, permanent collection |
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Rooms with a View: Landscape and WallpaperThis exhibition features 90 selections of wallpaper—from the 18th to the 20th century—that document changing attitudes toward nature. The exhibition focuses on wallpaper production and use especially during the 19th century, when landscape in art was a metaphor for spiritual and national aspirations. Prior to 1840, wallpaper was block-printed and too costly for middle-class consumption. Machine printing made wallpaper accessible in the latter part of the 19th century, both in Europe and America. wallpaper, wall coverings, nature, landscapes, exhibitions, ch:exhibition=35350105 |
