Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A ruler wearing a plumed turban holds a scepter with a crescent top and smokes a long-stemmed pipe; seated on a throne. A woman, seated at right, plays a stringed instrument. A lion is at left. Border of fuirt, flowers, and rocaille, with a turban at top center and at bottom center an escutcheon with the word "l'Afrique". Bottom, left of center: "A Paris chez Crepy rue S. Pierre. Avec Privilege du Roy".
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- 1750–1775
- Accession Number
- 1921-22-276
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
- Dimensions
- 58.5 × 82 cm (23 1/16 × 32 5/16 in.)
- made in
- 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_1921-22-276
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4cd81f521-c79a-4cca-ba5b-45a2b2c89c68
