Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements [Les Quatre Elements]
date: label: Date
content: 1810–20
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Hartmann et Fils, (Munster, France)
label: Artist
content: B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design is composed of four vignettes separated in pairs vertically in the center of the composition by a strip composed of trophies symbolizing the elements, and at the repeat, a similar unfinished panel along the upper left margin. The vignettes show: upper left, Juno seated in a chariot drawn over the clouds by peacocks accompanied by amoretti (personifying "Air"); lower left, Vulcan forging armor (personifying "Fire"); upper right, Saturn seated in a landscape holding a cornucopia and beside him a globe, quartered with four animals (personifying "Earth"); lower right, Venus borne over the water on a shell drawn by dolphins, attended by amoretti (personifying "Water").
label: Description
content: Scale, in pen and black ink (according to Richard Wunder, by the artist's hand), lower margin.
place: label: made in
content: Munster, 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: Gift of Bridget Mahon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1898-21-12-b
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, traces of graphite on cream laid paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 58 x 45.4 cm (22 13/16 x 17 7/8 in.)