Lit à l’Antique
date: label: Date
content: 1779-90
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a canopy bed with a small crown (baldachin) (front view) projecting from the wall at the head of the bed, with no outer posts or footboard. The canopy is topped with a central feather finial. The curtains are drawn back and tied with rope with tassels. The bed frame is decorated with balusters and drapery tied back with rope and curtains. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
place: 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: 1921-6-395-62
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