Design for a Hand Fan (Left Plate)
date: label: Date
content: ca.1734–37
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a hand fan or hand screen pasted to the left of another design. The design features rococo and chinoiserie (in the Chinese style) motifs, with a man sitting in the foreground within a landscape with a covered bridge in the background. The ornament framing the scene features a vase on a plinth, a bird, wings, c-scrolls, fleurons, rosettes, rinceaux, and leaves. The plate is lettered 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: 1921-6-490-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 24.2 × 30.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.5 × 12.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.7 × 11.8 cm (5 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.)