Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Literature
date: label: Date
content: 1785-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A putto wearing a helmet and shouldering a lance speaks to another one who, crowned with a wreath, pauses in writing. Two more putti are present.
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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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: 1911-28-509-b
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.5 × 20.9 cm (4 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)