Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)
date: label: Date
content: ca.1734–37
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a hand fan or hand screen pasted to the right of another design. The design features rococo and chinoiserie (in the Chinese style) motifs, with two men seated in the foreground within a landscape with a faintly outlined building or garden structure in the background. The ornament framing the scene features a vase on a plinth, a bird, c-scrolls, shells, canopies, architectural details, bells, fleurons, rosettes, rinceaux, and leaves. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-490-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 24.2 × 30.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.5 × 12 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.7 × 11.8 cm (5 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.)