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Panel of printed cotton
English or Irish
18th century
Object Place: England
Medium/Technique
Cotton copperplate print
Dimensions
237 x 95.5 cm (93 5/16 x 37 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Special Textile Fund
Accession Number50.2475
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionAbout 2 1/3 repeat units. On natural ground, engraved design printed in brown. Shows, in each unit, a ruined stone fountain surrounded by trees and an urn on a stone arch, upper left; a grounded bird winging by tree stumps, upper right; a tree running diagonally to lower right, springing from a classical ruin with fluted Ionic columns; left of this, a man walks through central arch in a ruined triple arch; interspaces filled with flowering branches. Cotton browned and brittle; some small holes. Selvedge along left side.