LA MÉDECINE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing medicine from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center onto a piece of textile held up by a winged skeleton holding an arrow, with trees in the background and plants beneath. In the foreground a putto stands on a plinth, facing the skeleton holding a book and a reptile. On the plinth around him are books, writing tools, paper, vials, an urn, a jar, measuring devices and a corpse. A roundel portrait of Falconet in the center on the plinth with a festoon of ribbons. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is 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: 1921-6-361-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper