Design for a Fantastical Landscape with an Obelisk
date: label: Date
content: 1756
name: label: Designer
content: Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a fantastical landscape from a suite of six. In the foreground, to the left, an obelisk in part ruin, overgrown with flowers and leaves, decorated with a sculpted trophy featuring armor, quiver of arrows, bow and flaming torch, hanging from a bow. The obelisk is topped with a flowering vase. In the background a circular colonnade with a sculpture of a female figure on a plinth in the center. Trees and clouds in the background with birds. Foliage, fruit, flowers, and water in the foreground.
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: 1921-6-323-6
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