L'Europe
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Print Maker
content: Marie Michelle Blondel, French, active mid 18th century
label: After
content: Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781
label: Publisher
content: Mademoiselle Dobe, French, active ca. 1736
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An allegorical female figure representing Europe from a series of four. The female seated figure is topless and wearing a crown on her head while holding a domed church. Trees and a column in the background with books, a globe, palette and paintbrushes, measuring devices, and cornucopia filled with fruit at her feet. A horse to her right with spears, banners and arms and armor behind her. The vignette is framed by a scrolling cartouche with a shell in the upper center. The plate is signed and titled, signed, and dated.
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: 1921-6-447-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper