Design for Textile
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1801
name: label: Designer
content: Louis-Albert DuBois, Swiss, 1752–1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shows a corner of a repeating design border. From left to right, a couple plays music, man in pink and woman in purple, sitting before a bush with colorful flowers; in the background, a body of water with some boats and an island with a castle in the distance; next, the couple plays with a dog; in the corner, the man offers the woman a flower, while she holds a box; lastly, the man holds a scroll and points it at the woman as she raises her hands. The border consists of areas of color, pink and purple and black with white zigzagging patterns.
place: label: made in
content: Geneva, Switzerland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-46-2
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, graphite on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 42.1 x 46.3 cm (16 9/16 x 18 1/4 in.)