Drawing, Design for a Wallpaper or Textile

Sarah Cooper Hewitt; Eleanor Garnier Hewitt

1820–1850

graphite, brush and brown, black gouache on paper; verso: black paper

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

This is a design for a wallpaper or textile featuring scrolls with acanthus leaves and roses. Recto: Scrolls with acanthus leaves and three festoons with roses. Verso, horizontally: Scrolls with acanthus motifs, bunches of roses, and a curved row of calyxes. Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt