Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Offset cartouches showing Neptune with trident riding horses and causing a storm; and a youth riding a dolphin away from a shipwreck. Spaces between the cartouches filled with arabesques, putti and garlands.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Company
- Gorgerat Frères et Cie., (Nantes, France, 1783–1815)
- Date
- 1780–85
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elinor Merrell
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
- Dimensions
- Warp:127 cm (50in.). Weft: 95.5cm (37 1/2in.). Selvedge at left.
- Pattern: Height of repeat (and plate); 40 inches.
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Textile
