Cartoon for cotton printing: Scenes from Moliere's "Le Medecin Malgre Lui"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810-1820
name: label: Author
content: Molière, French, 1622–1673
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four vignettes on a patterned ground for the design of a textile illustrate Moliere's comedy, "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" (The Doctor in Spite of Himself). The scenes shown include: upper left, Sganarelle surprised in a woods by Valére and Lucas (Act I, Scene 6); upper right, Sganarelle, in physician's dress, tells Géronte of his daughter, Lucinda's illness (Act II, Scene 6); lower left: Sganarelle engages Géronte in conversation, while Lucinda escapes with her lover, Leandre (Act III, Scene 7); lower right, Sganarelle is interruped from beating his wife by Robert (Act I, Scene I). The scenes are set against a diamond-patterned ground, with shaded squares at the intersections.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Bridget Mahon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1898-21-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, gray wash, and white heightening on brown paper (mounted)
label: Dimensions
content: 50.2 × 80 cm (19 3/4 × 31 1/2 in.)