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| George Baster (publisher) Gems of the Great Exhibition, no. 1 1851 lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| George Baxter (publisher) Gems of the Great Exhibition, no. 2 1851 lithograph Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Frederick Crace Design for Painted Coach Panel with Rocaille Motif ca. 1847 gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Frederick Crace Design for Rocaille Ornament after 1829 gouache on blue paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
"Oh! There is a sweet æra in the life of man, when (the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than any thing else) – a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny –
Amandus – He
Amanda – She –
each ignorant of the other's course,
He – east
She – west
Amandus taken captive by the Turks, and carried to the emperor of Morocco's court, where the princess of Morocco falling in love with him, keeps him twenty years in prison, for the love of his Amanda. –
She – (Amanda) all the time wandering barefoot, and with dishevell'd hair, o'er rocks & mountains, enquiring for Amandus – Amandus! Amandus! – making every hill and valley to echo back his name –
Amandus! Amandus!
at every town and city, sitting down forlorn at the gate – Has Amandus! – has my Amandus! enter'd? – going round, and round, and round the world – chance unexpected bringing them at the same moment of the night, though by different ways, to the gate of Lyons, their native city, and each in well-known accents calling out aloud,
Is Amandus
Is my Amanda still alive?
they fly into each other's arms, and both drop down dead for joy."
– Laurence Sterne, from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
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| Pierre Ranson Wall Elevation of Bedroom Alcove ca. 1780 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Pierre Ranson Wall Elevation of Bedroom Alcove ca. 1780 watercolor, gouache Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Charles Albert Lespilliez after Jean-François Cuvilliés Design for Interior Niche with Fountain before 1768 engraving Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| I.W. Meil after Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt II Design for Grotto Room Wall 1753 etching, engraving Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous English Designer Wallpaper 1765 block-printed and glazed Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Walter Crane Wallpaper Frieze - May Tree for Jeffrey & Co, England 1896 block-printed Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| after Sebastiano Serlio Corinthian Column Capital with Acanthus 1544 etching British Museum |
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| after Sebastiano Serlio Corinthian Column Base 1544 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Polidoro da Caravaggio Frieze Fragment ca. 1520-35 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Polidoro da Caravaggio Frieze Fragment ca. 1520-35 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |