ART DU BRODEUR
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French, 1736 - 1807
label: Publisher
content: Louis-François Delatour, French, 1727 - 1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The fourth plate from a series of ten illustrating the tools and art of embroidery. The designs and tools on the page are numbered and lettered. The numbers and letters are referred to in the accompanying text, which is not included in this album. The upper and lower designs are floral friezes with the design in the center showing a ribbon with scalloped edges. The designs are illustrated in the varying degrees of completion to illustrate the process of embroidery. The designs and tools are on a plain background within a double-lined border. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. There is a circle in graphite around the upper design and title, with a letter A inscribed below.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-530-4
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