Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Allegorical vignette representing agriculture from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center on a large flat basket surrounded by trees, plants, agricultural tools, wheels, with a putto in the foreground filling a jug from a water fountain, topped with a beehive decorated with a garland of flowers, and a sheep to his left. The water flows below into a pool of water in the shape of a large shell. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
- Print Maker
- Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
- Publisher
- Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
- Date
- 1759–80
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Object Name
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