Design for the letters V and X of a Pictoral Alphabet: Victoire/Xystus (Victory in the Xystus)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
name: label: Artist
content: Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Letters above, flanked by intertwining rinceaux. Victory crowning a victorious athlete within a space called the Xystus in Greek--the covered portico of a gymnasium.
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: 1938-57-796
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and bistre ink, brush and ink wash, with white heightening on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 7.6 cm (4 3/4 in. × 3 in.)