Sombre Grounds

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Swags of Netting with Bows
ca. 1948-56
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche
Daphnis for Wiener Werkstätte
1922
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (France)
Art Deco Acanthus Scroll
ca. 1925
block-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (Japan)
Foliage and Flowers
ca. 1990-95
embossed paper, printed in gold
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Cacti
ca. 1946
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Porcelain Fruit
ca. 1940
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (Scotland)
Reproduction of lost 1916 wallpaper
designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1968
screenprinted paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Deer and Daisy Rings
ca. 1948-52
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Floral Repeat
ca. 1948
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Rose Trellis
ca. 1948
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (England)
The Cedar Tree
1910
block-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Fishing Nets and Sea Shells
ca. 1935-45
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (Germany)
Sonne un Soden
ca. 1925
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (Germany)
Colored Loops
ca. 1956-57
machine-printed paper (plastic coated)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Underwater Scene
ca. 1954
screenprinted paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Well-Dressed Rabbits
ca. 1948-50
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Wallpaper Sample (USA)
Waterlilies
1949
machine-printed paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

from Hymn to Apollo

    And you (O Delian Virgins) doe me grace,

When any stranger of our earthie Race

Whose restlesse life Affliction hath in chace,

Shall hither come, and question you; Who is

To your chaste eares, of choicest faculties

In sacred Poesie; and with most right

Is Author of your absolut'st delight;

Ye shall your selves doe all the right ye can

To answer for our Name: The sightlesse man

Of stonie Chios.  All whose Poems shall 

In all last Ages stand for Capitall.

This for your owne sakes I desire; for I

Will propagate mine owne precedencie,

As far as earth shall well-built cities beare,

Or humane conversation is held deare. 

Not with my praise direct, but praises due;

And men shall credit it, because tis true.

    Then to Olympus, swift as thought hee flew

To Joves high house, and had a retinew

Of Gods t' attend him. And then strait did fall

To studie of the Harp, and Harpsicall,

All th' Immortalls. To whom every Muse

With ravishing voices did their answers use,

Singing th' eternal deeds of Deitie.

And from their hands what Hells of miserie

Poore Humanes suffer, living desperate quite.

And not an Art they have, wit, or deceipt,

Can make them manage any Act aright:

Nor finde with all the soule they can engage,

A salve for Death, or remedie for Age.

– Homeric Hymns (8th-6th century BC), translated by George Chapman (1624)