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Scenes of a wedding

Cooper Hewitt

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    Object Details

    Designer

    Delmes

    Engraver

    Delmes

    Producer

    Favre Petitpierre, (France, 1802–1818)

    Catalogue Status

    Research in Progress

    Description

    Four scenes of a wedding: asking for the woman's hand, the wedding inside the church, the procession leaving the church, the wedding feast. In brown on white.

    Credit Line

    Bequest of Elinor Merrell

    Date

    ca. 1815

    Accession Number

    1995-50-192

    Restrictions & Rights

    CC0

    Type

    printed, dyed & painted textiles

    Object Name

    Textile

    Type

    Textile

    Medium

    Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave

    Dimensions

    Warp x Weft: 99 x 85.7 cm (39 x 33 3/4 in.)
    Repeat H: 52.4 cm (20 5/8 in.)

    made in

    Nantes, France

    See more items in

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
    Textiles Department

    Data Source

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49b635058-f383-423b-8517-a0a09476aed2

    Record ID

    chndm_1995-50-192

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