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Object Details
- Artist
- P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century
- Attributed to
- Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Trellis architecture, showing at its center a fountain with water spouting from a bird's beak. In lower right-hand corner, there is a vase of some sort with plants sprouting up from it. Foliage and wood work mingle as they wind around the center fountain.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- ca. 1745
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-416
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, black chalk on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.2 x 20 cm (7 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 x 15 5/8 x 1 in.)
- Mat: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
- designed in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-416
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42f799ff1-ba07-44a3-9a8f-b72da971c7eb
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