Plate 17 from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum by Jacques Besson
date: label: Date
content: after 1578
name: label: Print Maker
content: René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625
label: After
content: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder, French, ca. 1515 - after 1584
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A royal wagon with circular front and rear suspension is decorated with sphinxes, satyrs and double tailed winged supporters. The carriage is constructed with an open lattice work top allowing for visibility of the two male passengers inside. THe carraige is pulled along be two horses at right above which a front elevation of the suspension element is shown.
label: Description
content: A block of text is printed across the top of the sheet.
label: Description
content: This version of the print has been cut out and mounted on a thick sheet of tan machine made wove paper. It is hand colored, definitely at a later date possibly 19th century, with opaque watercolor and also thin washes. The text block has been colored to simulate marble and the carriage has been treated with gold paint to suggest gilding. The elaborate strapwork border, or frame around the image has also been painted.
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: Museum purchase through gift of the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1963-53-1
objectType: label: Type
content: transportation
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on off-white laid paper; brush and watercolor, gouache and gold paint, cut out and laid down on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 36.8 x 49.4 cm (14 1/2 x 19 7/16 in.)