Telemachus on the Island of Calypso
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Object Details
- Designer
- Xavier Mader
- Manufacturer
- Joseph Dufour et Cie., French, 1752–1827
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- One panel, comprised of two widths of scenic wallpaper. The panels depict Calypso standing on a rocky outcrop, next to a Caryatid pouring water from vases into a pond. Three swans swim in the pond. Set within a lush landscape. The scenic panel is framed with a passementerie or fancy gimp border.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Audrey Boughton
- 1815–20
- Accession Number
- 1996-108-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Wallcoverings
- Object Name
- Scenic
- Type
- Scenic
- Medium
- Block-printed on joined sheets
- made in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Wallcoverings Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1996-108-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq485e1df87-0b54-4bd2-99b8-52cc5937fc42
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