The Eruption of Vesuvius
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
name: label: Maker
content: Favre Petitpierre, (France, 1802–1818)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Textile has four repeating scenes representing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius as described in the letters of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. The boy reading is Pliny trying to be calm. One of the women is his mother. A visiting friend reproves their calmness. In purple-brown on white.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-118
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 218.5 x 138 cm (7 ft. 2 in. x 54 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H: 84.6 cm (33 5/16 in.)