ART DU BRODEUR
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Designer
content: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French, 1736 - 1807
label: Publisher
content: Louis-François Delatour, French, 1727 - 1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The second plate from a series of ten illustrating the tools and art of embroidery. Along the upper section, a view of the interior of a workshop with a man and two women working on embroidery frames. Other frames and tools are visible within the interior with two large windows. Below the scene are numbered and lettered designs for elements of embroidered ornament, showing their different stages of embroidery, from outlines to finished design with shading. The design includes leaves and petals. The whole is framed within a double-lined border. The numbers and letters are referred to in the accompanying text, which is not included in this album. The plate is titled and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-530-2
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