Design for a Lighthouse
date: label: Date
content: 1760–75
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a Neoclassical lighthouse with a smooth-faced rusticated façade and large vermiculated panels. The French royal coat of arms above the door, with oval and round windows on the tower, with laurel leaf festoons framing the central oval windows. Topped with a flaming / smoking urn or vase on the domed roof. Clouds in the background and steps leading up to the lighthouse. A scale below the design and the price. The plate is titled and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-293-1
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