Design for a hand screen
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740-1762
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a hand-screen decorated with seated figure below a chinoiserie-style canopy, the design is incorporated within a rococo style framing device, featuring c-scrolls, a palm, flowers, shells and tented canopies. The plate is signed in the lower left corner. The etched sheet is cut-out and pasted onto the left side of a larger sheet. The right side of the sheet is framed in graphite with inscribed numbers also in graphite.
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-301-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper