Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The helmeted, but naked figure of the warrior king of Sparta, Leonidas, holding a shield and carrying a sword in the center of a rocky pass with a field of warriors. On the left a man engraves on a rock with his sword the inscription which will recall for posterity the deed of the Spartan. At the left is the blind warrior Eurites. On scroll at bottom center: "LEONIDAS AUX THERMOPYLES, D'apres David." In sepia on natural.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elinor Merrell
- ca. 1815
- Accession Number
- 1995-50-363
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- printed, dyed & painted textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved plate
- Dimensions
- Warp x Weft: 66.5 x 80.5 cm (26 3/16 x 31 11/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1995-50-363
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4264fde6a-cab0-4272-a47d-6d9487c176e2
