Algerian Pirates
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a grid made up of a curving vine of fruits and flowers, an alternation of two scenes, each captioned in French. 'Les Pirates Algeriens' showing two young female goatherds being captured by five men in a boat while in the distance men run to their rescue, ' Un bazar d'escales a Alger' (A slave sale in Algeria) showing showing Europeans being sold in the slave market. In red on white.
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: 1995-50-157-a,b
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 roller on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (a): 181 × 62 cm (5 ft. 11 1/4 in. × 24 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft (b): 97 × 63 cm (38 3/16 × 24 13/16 in.)