Children Building a House of Cards
date: label: Date
content: 1759
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Charles Canot, French, 1710 - 1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print from a series of fourteen chinoiserie vignettes, depicting children playing a variety of games in different landscapes. Three children playing together, two standing at a table, building a house of cards from a set of playing cards. A third child, shown from the back, looks towards the others while holding a stick. The children stand in a landscape with reeds, trees, foliage, rocks and a roofed garden arbor in the background, the scene is framed by branches, foliage, rocks and wooden boards.
place: label: published in
content: London, England
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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: 1921-6-381-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper