Children Playing Piggyback
date: label: Date
content: 1759
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Charles Canot, French, 1710 - 1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print from a series of fourteen chinoiserie vignettes, depicting children playing a variety of games in different landscapes. One child carries another on his back while a third stands to their left, with his arms out towards them. The scene is framed by trees, reeds, foliage, plants rocks and stone stairs The print is signed and dated.
place: label: published in
content: London, England
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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: 1921-6-381-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper