L’HORLOGERIE / LA GRAVÛRE
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781
label: After
content: Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fifth plate from a series of fifteen depicting children and the sciences, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, two per plate, side-by-side. The series is incomplete here. The left-hand scene shows three boys working with horological instruments, within a landscape. There is a large globe on a plinth with clocks to the right, and a table in the foreground. The top of the cartouche incorporates elements of a clock’s mechanism. The right-hand scene shows an interior with a group of boys working in a print workshop. A table in the foreground with a seated figure engraving a plate. A press in the background with drying prints suspended above. A boy sketching a portrait bust sits on top of the frame. The title is lettered below each cartouche. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-349-17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching on paper