Allegorical Scene with Aurora
date: label: Date
content: 1707–44
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques Fouquet, French, active 1685 – 1704
label: Print Maker
content: Marie-Jeanne Renard Du Bos, French, active early 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Gaspard Duchange, French, 1662 – 1757
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A print and lettered verse representing Aurora, Greek and Roman goddess of dawn. She is depicted in her horse-drawn chariot in a central framed vignette supported by a basket of flowers, held up by putti, flanked by female winged herms, holding watering jugs, with strapwork, shell, acanthus, and margent ornanement and a central mascaron below. Above is the descriptive verse lettered within a framed cartouche, with a mascaron below and putto on either side along with a goat and an eagle.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-236-34
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper