Sidewall (USA)

Walter Crane

1875–1900

machine-printed, oil colors, textured ground

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Vertical rectangle. Children's paper with nursery rhymes, showing a repeat of six scenes in two rows: Jack and Jill, I had a little nut tree, My pretty maid; and My lady's garden, The mulberry bush, Little Bo-Peep. In pastel colors, principally pink, yellow, blue and green on an off-white ground. Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt