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Printed cotton: The See-saw

French (Nantes)
1795–1900
Object Place: Nantes, France

Medium/Technique Cotton blockprint with painted details in polychrome on white
Dimensions Overall: 54.8 x 39.7 cm (21 9/16 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Textile Income Purchase Fund
Accession Number55.103
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTextiles

DescriptionPiece of printed cotton, polychrome on white ground showing see-saw with a man on one end, a figure in classical dress at the fulcrum and a seated couple at the other end; right selvedge present; some of a brown dye rotting out.