Interior Wall Elevation with a Bed
date: label: Date
content: 1779-84
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an interior wall featuring ornately painted panels and a bed set into a niche, decorated with ‘turquerie’ (Turkish style) motifs. The panels are decorated with flowers, scrolling leaves, cornucopia, pearls, leafy sprigs, crowns of flowers, crescent moons, and draped fabric. The frame of the bed (daybed) features crescent moons, scrolling leaves (rinceaux) and pearls with floral cushions and scalloped bedding with flowers, tassels, and festoons of pearls. A curtain with similar motifs is draped over the frame of the niche, topped with a bejeweled crescent moon and a turban (Turkish style) hat with feathers. Two large cushions on the floor flank the bed on either side. The frieze above is decorated with a repeating pattern of leaves, large pearls, and crescent moons. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-392-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 × 49.5 cm (12 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 26.9 × 46 cm (10 9/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.6 × 45.6 cm (10 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)