Lit à la Romaine
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Etienne Claude Voysard, French, 1746 - 1812
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a canopy bed with small crown (baldachin) mounted above a large panel or wall, along the side of the bed. The headboard and foot boards are the same height and decorated with acorn finials. The bed linen is striped and decorated along the skirt with a floral diaper pattern, with swags of hanging textiles. The bed curtains are drawn back, and the canopy is topped with three feather finials. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
place: 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: 1921-6-395-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on light blue laid paper