Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Artist
content: B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketch for one island for a cartoon for cotton printing, showing a blind soldier, staff in hand, holding a young boy on his left arm, while another soldier, nearby, expresses anguish. (Probably an unused island for a Belisarius subject; island shows the blind Belisarius being recognized by one of his soldiers.)
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: Gift of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-65-105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink with gray wash on paper