The Letter S
date: label: Date
content: 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giovanni Battista Betti, Italian, active 1754 - 1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Allegorical figure of Sleep in the form of a boy with wings, is sleeping upon a mound and within the letter "S," which is formed by a scroll and a flourish. Leafy trees in background, a cornucopia emitting clouds of smoke at lower left. Part of a set of prints of alphabet letters.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1918-17-19
objectType: label: Type
content: ephemera
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.2 × 32.4 cm (9 1/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: (Mat): 35.7 × 45.7 cm (14 1/16 in. × 18 in.)