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date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781
label: After
content: Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: First plate from a series of fifteen depicting children and the sciences, framed within decorative rococo cartouches, two per plate, side-by-side. The series is incomplete here. The left-hand scene shows a group of boys within a landscape with a building in the background, looking through a telescope, with other instruments associated with optics. The top of the cartouche is decorated with a globe and the bottom, with a bird. The right-hand scene shows an interior with bookshelves and portrait busts, with a group of boys studying. The top of the cartouche is decorated with a globe, scrolls of paper and a curtain, the bottom, with a bird. The titles are lettered above each cartouche, the plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-349-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching on paper