LA PHARMACIE
date: label: Date
content: 1738
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Publisher
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print after an overdoor painting of an allegory of chemistry or pharmacology, depicting the fantastical interior of a chemist’s study or laboratory in a round room with arches, windows, bookcases, and stairs, with a large stove with a chimney in the middle. A landscape with trees is visible to the right. A man sits in front of the stove, a woman with a basket stands behind him to the left. The room is filled with vials, beakers, and other apparatus and tools. Animals hang from the ceiling, including an elephant’s head, a turtle, spider, and an alligator or crocodile, along with shells, coral, and other natural specimens. The title is lettered below and the plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-211-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching and engraving on paper