Design for a Lighthouse
date: label: Date
content: 1760–75
name: label: Designer
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
label: Print Maker
content: A. Le Canu, French, active 1746 – 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a Neoclassical lighthouse with a smooth-faced horizontal banded rusticated façade. Doors on the sides, with windows above, and a central door on the balcony level. Figures visible on the balcony and around the base of the lighthouse. The French royal coat of arms on the upper façade of the tower. Topped with a flaming/ smoking urn or vase framed within a round trellised structure. Clouds in the background and steps leading up to the lighthouse. A scale below the design. The plate is titled and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-293-4
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 45.1 x 29.8 cm (17 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.3 x 18.6 cm (10 3/4 x 7 5/16 in.)