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date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781
label: After
content: Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sixth plate from a series of fifteen depicting children and the sciences, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, two per plate, side-by-side. The series is incomplete here. The left-hand scene shows a seated boy looking through a telescope, surrounded by a globe and papers. The right-hand scene shows a seated boy, holding a plaque with shapes, with a hand resting on a globe while holding a caliper. The titles are lettered within the cartouche, below each figure, with dragons incorporated into each frame. The plate is numbered.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-349-18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching on paper