<img width="521" height="1024" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1.jpg 521w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1-153x300.jpg 153w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1-120x235.jpg 120w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" data-attachment-id="23566" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/02/16/an-old-fashioned-view/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1.jpg" data-orig-size="521,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b[1]" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1-153x300.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/41039_b38e6ae3c310fac6_b1.jpg" />This beautiful sidewall is a great example of the Rococo Revival style at its most wild and vivid. Its design, a repeating landscape vignette floating in space bordered by sprays of flowers, is common in 18th century wallpapers. This paper also uses the old-fashioned technique of block-printing, despite coming from a time when machine-printing dominated...
