Leonidas at Thermopylae
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The helmeted, but naked figure of the warrior king of Sparta, Leonidas, holding a shield and carrying a sword in the center of a rocky pass with a field of warriors. On the left a man engraves on a rock with his sword the inscription which will recall for posterity the deed of the Spartan. At the left is the blind warrior Eurites. On scroll at bottom center: "LEONIDAS AUX THERMOPYLES, D'apres David." In sepia on natural.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-363
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 66.5 x 80.5 cm (26 3/16 x 31 11/16 in.)