Fantastical Garden with Figures
date: label: Date
content: 1738–49
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
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 fantastical garden scene with figures in Chinese style dress with chinoiserie style motifs. A figure sits on a pedestal while playing a triangle. Another figure to the right, holds a large plinth with leaves. A top the plinth a part-animal, part-male figure with the torso and arms of a man and the head and legs of an animal (possibly a sheep or a monkey) reaches out to hold a scrolling acanthus leaf ornament. Trees and rocaille ornament: shells, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves, and feathers surround the figures. A dragon in the upper left. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-522-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 15.9 × 23.1 cm (6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 31.9 × 23.1 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/8 in.)