Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The Circus: horizontal panel with three naturalistic scenes framed in arches. The largest scene shows a large standing elephant with a trainer wearing a red coat and a small rearing elephant. The small panel on the left shows a standing bearded figure wearing a red cloak and in the small panel on the right a standing man wearing an animal skin. Colors in shades of brown, tan, red and yellow (faded).
- Credit Line
- Gift of Harvey Smith
- late 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1968-135-88
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Carpet
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, bast, fiber, wool Technique: printed on supplementary warp cut pile
- Dimensions
- H x W: 67.5 × 154 cm (26 9/16 × 60 5/8 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1968-135-88
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq429f0c37b-0e33-4ba1-8d22-61cbfcd9a14b
