A man with a Canon
date: label: Date
content: 1760-1775
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Publisher
content: Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A chinoiserie-style design for a panel after Jean Pillement, depicting a male figure lighting a canon within a landscape of trees and rockery, in front of a roofed canopy with two hanging bells and two figures standing underneath, watching the canon. The roof of the structure is topped with large leaves. To the left of the canopy, there is a smaller wooden structure with an arched doorway. Below the vignette, rococo-style ornament of fronds and plants, frame a vessel with a fire and smoke.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-303-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper