La Vue
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1736-55
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Publisher
content: Marie-Madeleine Taté, French, 1690? – 1748
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An allegory for the sense of sight featuring a large magic lantern or camera obscura type device with peep holes around each side. The box is decorated with rococo motifs, c-scrolls, cartouches, shells, fluting, and gadrooning. The large box is in a landscape flanked by trees, with a young girl and boy looking into the holes. A man stands left of the large box, and another seated to the right looks through a telescope towards the sky. The plate is titled and signed.
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: 1921-6-517-1
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