Paul et Virginie
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Producer
content: Petitpierre et Cie, (Nantes, France, 1770–1848)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A series of pictorial vignettes illustrating the story of Paul and Virginia as originally told in the novel by Bernadin de St-Pierre (1788) and later in an opera (which changed the ending of the original story) by Kreutzer and Favieres (1791). Scenes include a shipwreck and scenes on a tropical island. 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: 1995-50-141
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: 170 x 126 cm (5 ft. 6 15/16 in. x 49 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H (Plate H): 101 cm (39 3/4 in.)