Design for the Cover of a Snuff Box
date: label: Date
content: 1760–1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Cupid, coming to Venus who is seated upon clouds, puts his left arm around her shoulders and points toward the earth as she does. Framed by a moulding with festoons hanging from bow knots and rosettes.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1896-14-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen, brush and Chinese ink on sepia paper
label: Dimensions
content: 9.3 × 5.3 cm (3 11/16 × 2 1/16 in.)