Textile
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: David Richards, British
label: Engraver
content: David Richards, British
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Blue textile printed with a vertical repeat pattern: main scene, at center, shows two ladies talking with a girl in a park; at the right, two ladies converse with a gentleman at the foot of a flight of stone steps with balustrade. Above, at left, two ladies being rowed in a boat by a man, past gothic ruins; at right, a lady and gentleman strolling in picturesque woods. Stone steps have an inscription on edge of tread of bottom step: “Drawn & Engrav’d By D. Richards (s reversed) Manch.r.”
place: label: made in
content: Manchester, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-49-1
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 208 x 71.1 cm (6 ft. 9 7/8 in. x 28 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H: 83.8 cm (33 in.)