Dibutades Tracing Her Lover's Shadow
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Franz Ignaz Oefele, German, 1721–1797
label: Print Maker
content: Franz Ignaz Oefele, German, 1721–1797
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scene taken from mythology of a young woman, Dibutades, tracing the outline of her lover's shadow on the wall. The story is often taken as concerning the invention of drawing.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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: 1921-6-285-121
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper