The Carnival of Venice
date: label: Date
content: 1730–50
name: label: Designer
content: Martin Engelbrecht, German, 1684–1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Scene made up of 6 cards, the frontmost 5 cards with cutouts that allow a view of the scene beyond when aligned, the last card with no cutout. Palace of the Doges on right, library on left. Also the campanile of St. Marks, the Mint, and a church in background. Groups of costumed male and female figures dance in a street square framed by two columns in foreground, musicians play instruments at foreground in right. A dog leaps in foreground at left.
place: label: made in
content: Augsburg, Germany
label: place depicted
content: Venice, 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: Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1937-38-8-a
objectType: label: Type
content: toys & games
label: Object Name
content: Peep-show
label: Type
content: Peep-show
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving, brush and watercolor on white paper
label: Dimensions
content: One of 6 total prints, each print: 9.6 × 15 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)