La Mort de Didon
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Maker
content: Petitpierre et Cie, (Nantes, France, 1770–1848)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scenes of people in classical dress illustrating a story from Virgil's Aeneid that inspired two operas in eighteenth-century France. Aeneas leaves Troy in flames carrying his father Anchises in his arms, Aeneas abandons Dido who then kills herself, and Aeneas kills Turmus. In red on white.
place: label: made in
content: Nantes, France
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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: 1995-50-85
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 128.5 x 98.5 cm (50 9/16 x 38 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Repeat H: 84.5 cm (33 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Width of plate: 94.5 cm (37 1/4 in.)