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 rusticated façade. A central door with a panel and pediment above. At the base of the tower, on each of the four sides, a sculpted hull of a boat projecting outwards. Above round windows on each side, framed by laurel leaf festoons. On the roof, a smoking / flaming vase or urn within a trellised structure. Clouds in the background and steps leading up to the lighthouse. A scale below the design. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-293-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper