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date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Bacheley, French, 1712 – 1781
label: After
content: Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England
label: Publisher
content: François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Second plate from a series of six depicting children’s scenes, framed within decorative rococo cartouches. The series is incomplete in this album and the third and fourth plates have been substituted with plates from other series. The scene depicts a group of girls reading, knitting, and engaging in different activities, with a teacher seated, holding a book open to one of the girls. A cabinet stands to the right and the cartouche incorporates a shelf with some books and a basket of yarn. The title is lettered below the 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: 1921-6-349-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: etching on paper