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date: label: Date
content: 1723-1735
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Watteau, (French, 1684–1721)
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707–1783
label: Publisher
content: Edmé-François Gersaint, French, 1694 – 1750
label: Publisher
content: Louis Surugue, French, 1686–1762
label: Director of Production
content: Jean de Jullienne, French, 1686–1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vignette of figures in a landscape. At left of the vignette, a young man and woman sit talking; at center, a woman sits on a rope swing suspended between two trees; a young man at lower right holds the rope that swings her. The scene is set within a field of arabesque ornamentation, and includes motifs such as scrolls, birds, garland, baskets of flowers, reeds, and meanders. Below the figures in the vignette, there is a cartouche with a landscape scene with a woman bathing at a river, and two figures in the background. The plate is signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-224-115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper