The Opening of Trade
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A fashionably dressed man and woman, left, approach a group of people, at right, one of whom rolls a barrel, while another writes on a paper on a bale makred [stylized 4s] and [upside-down female symbol]. A ship is in the harbor in the middle ground. At right, a fragment of architecture with two columns, an incense burner. A fortified town in the background. Trees. Bottom: "l'Ouverture du Commerce".
place: label: made in
content: 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: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-22-293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 50.2 × 36.5 cm (19 3/4 × 14 3/8 in.)