L'Ouie
date: label: Date
content: 1758–89
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Robert Cooper, British, active 1795 – 1836
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print titled ‘Hearing’ from a series of six prints, (including title page) depicting personifications of the five senses, represented by chinoiserie figures within rococo-style cartouches. A man stands in the middle of a cartouche, surrounded by plants and trees, holding bells in both hands, with another bell hanging from the top of his hat. The cartouche is decorated with rococo-style ornament with flowers and sprigs. The title is lettered below and the print is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-381-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper