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Fabric length: "Les Sciences et les Arts"
French
1816
Object Place: Jouy-en-Josas, France
Medium/Technique
Cotton copper-roller print
Dimensions
62.5 x 41.6 cm (24 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Robert B. Choate
Accession Number59.581
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionCopper-roller printed in mauve on tabby-woven cotton ground. Vignettes of classical figures, including Dibutade tracing her lover, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalian, and Alexander, illustrate themes of the origins of the arts.