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| Anonymous French Designer Medallions and Bouquets ca. 1785 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Floral Basket ca. 1805 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Twining Garlands ca. 1815-25 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Interlocking Shapes ca. 1820-40 block-printed wallpaper border Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Gothic Tracery ca. 1840-60 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Osborne ca. 1850 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Renaissance Revival Bouquet 1860 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Trompe-l'oeil Blinds ca. 1860 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Masquerade Ball at the Opera House 1883 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Floral Stripes ca. 1875-1900 block-printed and embossed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Garden Scene imitating Découpage 1920 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Adventure Stories 1923 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Blossoms on Branches ca. 1928-29 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Blossoms on Trellis ca. 1928-29 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Bunches of Grapes ca. 1928-29 embossed and airbrushed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Leaves and Flowers ca. 1928-29 machine-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Designer Feather Plumes 1934 block-printed wallpaper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
Death's Lecture at the Funeral of a Young Gentleman.
Dear Reliques of a dislodg'd Soul, whose lack
Makes many a mourning paper put on black!
O stay a while, ere thou draw in thy head
And wind thy self up close in thy cold bed.
Stay but a little while, untill I call
A summons worthy of thy funerall.
Come then, Youth, Beauty, & blood!
All ye soft powres,
Whose sylken flatteryes swell a few fond howres
Into a false æternity. Come man;
Hyperbolizèd Nothing! know thy span;
Take thine own measure here; down, down, & bow
Before thy self in thine idæa; thou
Huge emptynes! contract thy self; & shrinke
All thy Wild circle to a Point. O sink
Lower & lower yet; till thy leane size
Call heav'n to look on thee with narrow eyes.
Lesser & lesser yet; till thou begin
To show a face, fitt to confesse thy Kin,
Thy neighbourhood to Nothing.
Proud lookes, & lofty eyliddes, here putt on
Your selves in your unfaign'd reflexion,
Here, gallant ladyes! this unpartiall glasse
(Though you be painted) showes you your true face.
These death-seal'd lippes are they dare give the ly
To the lewd Boasts of poor Mortality.
These curtain'd windows, this retired eye
Outstares the liddes of larg-look't tyranny.
This posture is the brave one, this that lyes
Thus low, stands up (me thinkes) thus & defies
The world. All-daring dust & ashes! only you
Of all interpreters read Nature True.
– Richard Crashaw (1652)











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