Coupe d’un batiment de quatre toises de face, prise sur la longueur
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1762
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Probably
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An architectural section depicting an interior of a four-storey building with the attic and basement levels included along with a walled garden to the left on the ground level. The interiors depicted include two rooms on each floor, with a total of ten rooms. Most of the rooms are ornately decorated with fireplaces, mirror-frames, panelling, console tables, and a large standing clock. A scale is included below the section and the whole is framed in black. The title is lettered below along with the name of the artist and printmaker. The plate is numbered ‘5’ in the lower right corner.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1921-6-302-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper.