Fantastic Flower Motif from Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de Fleurs Idéales
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Anne Allen, English, active France, ca. 1750–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A central stem diverges to five separate branches. Three, at top, emerge into orange, teal, and light green lattices to suport floral arrangements of small blossoms in blue, pink, and lavender, respectively. Below, long thin floral arrangements in lavender (left) and blue (right) are flanked by long almond-shaped leaves, emerging from the blossoms perpendicularly. At left, in green, and at right, orange.
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: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-11
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching a la poupée and colored inks on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.8 × 18.7 cm (11 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)