Etcher:

Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86  Search this

Medium:

Etching on cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 31.3 x 22.3 cm (12 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

Platemark: 20.5 x 17.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Type:

architecture

Print

Object Name:

Print

Made in:

France

Date:

1768, published 1770

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

One of a suite of 26 plates of urns, vases, tombs and fragments of sculpture set among classical ruins, heavily overgrown with vegetation. Suite divided into three parts. Tomb pictured center right behind vegetation ornamented with horizontal friezes with figures and a plaque.

Credit Line:

Gift of Whitney Warren

Accession Number:

1958-136-1-j

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4124862d0-c1e5-4ad2-b1fd-eef13e9d5612

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1958-136-1-j