Les Lois de Lycurgue
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1825
name: label: Engraver
content: Cholet
label: Producer
content: Favre Petitpierre, (France, 1802–1818)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three scenes (one complete only when lengths would be sewn together) of Lycurgus teaching the youth of Sparta. Full repeat not present. A and B are necessary to complete a partial width.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1995-50-185-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Fragments
label: Type
content: Fragments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: A. Warp: 63.5 cm (25 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Weft: 71 cm (28 in.). (Edges cut.)
label: Dimensions
content: B. Warp: 59 cm (23 1/4 in.).
label: Dimensions
content: Weft: 45 cm (17 1/2 in.) (Edges cut.)