Lit à la Militaire
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: A.B. Duhamel, French, b. 1736
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for beds. Above, a four-poster canopy bed topped with feather and feathered helmet finials, with hanging bed curtains and linen decorated with floral and leaf motifs, passementeries, and tassels. The headboard and footboard are the same height, with the outer board decorated with stripes, corner rosettes, and a floral garland. The lower design is a bed without a canopy. The headboard and footboard are the same height, view from the front. The boards feature central feathered helmet finials. The bed linen is decorated with flowers and festoons of laurel leaves. The bed skirt features swags of hanging textiles, tassels, and bows. Scales below each design. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-395-16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper