LA PHILOSOPHIE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: J. Arrivet, French, active 1776 - 1779
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing philosophy from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center, within a partly ruined arch, surrounded by trees and plants. A sun dial above on the center of the arch with a barometer along the right side of the arch. Below the arch a putto sits holding his head in his hand, reading a book with a quill in his other hand, surrounded by scientific instruments and devices, a microscope, mirror, shells, coral, a lobster, fossils, with a bookcase behind him. A roundel portrait of Descartes is in the center below the putto. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-360-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper