La Demande en Marriage
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Producer
content: Petitpierre Freres
label: Company
content: Petitpierre et Cie, (Nantes, France, 1770–1848)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Series of scenes involving couples in amorous pleasures in pastoral settings. One scene shows a man kneeling before a woman while two seated older men (presumably the two fathers) watch. This is the scenes which gives the fabric its title. Another scene shows a gentleman looking off into the distance with a telescope while his page dallies with a seated woman. In red 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: 1995-50-34
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 foundation
label: Dimensions
content: Warp: 144 cm (56 3/4 in.). Weft: 100 cm (39 1/4 in.) Both selvedges present. Pattern: height of repeat: 101.5 cm (40 in.) Plate visible under the feet of the gentleman with the telescope. Width of plate: 94.5 cm (37 1/4 in.) allowing almost two inches of white space for seams. Designed for lengths so be sewn together as a half-drop repeat.