ART DU BRODEUR
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French, 1736 - 1807
label: Publisher
content: Louis-François Delatour, French, 1727 - 1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The seventh plate from a series of ten illustrating the tools and art of embroidery. Two details from an embroidered textile showing the finished ornament along with a detail of a leaf and a set of plyers. The large, embroidered textile in the lower half features a crowned coat of arms with rocaille motifs, acanthus leaves, foliage, flowers, c-scrolls, and fleurons. The section above, features tassels, ribbons, and flowers. Each illustration is numbered with some further details lettered, on a plain background within a double-lined border. The numbers and letters are referred to in the accompanying text, which is not included in this album. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-530-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper