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Environs de Paris
ca. 1820
- Medium
- Block printed on handmade paper, wood frame
- Classification
- Folding screen
- Dimensions
- Overall: 160 x 386.7 cm (5 ft. 3 in. x 12 ft. 8 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. David Brown
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Eight-paneled screen, covered with wallpaper. Early 19th century "Landscape Paper", printed in sepia tones. Portion of "Jardin Baujon bei Neuilly". Wallpaper on the verso is blue rosettes on gray ground. The end two panels have been wiped clean of blue rosettes. Cobblestone road with horse-drawn carriages runs through the middle of the scene. Buildings off to the left side with the boat-filled harbor on the right.
