L’Auteur des Figures à la Grecque
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: After
content: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801
label: Print Maker
content: Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print titled ‘L’Auteur des Figures à la Grecque’, from a series of 10 plates featuring fanciful costumes inspired by Ancient Greek and Roman ornament and architectural motifs. A standing male figure draped in fabric, wearing a striped headdress and square eyeglasses holds an architectural plan and a caliper over a large book on top of a broken fluted column, with a large ruler leaning against the figure and column. An upside-down capital is at his feet and he stands in a landscape with a pyramid and trees in the background to his left. The plate is titled, signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Parma, Italy
label: published in
content: Milan, Italy
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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: 1921-6-471-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper