Marriage scenes
Object Details
- Engraver
- Alexandre Buquet, (French, 1802–1865)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four scenes, captioned in French, of marriage; asking for the woman's hand, the civil ceremony, the bedding of the bride and the day after the marriage. In purple on white.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Elinor Merrell
- ca. 1825
- Accession Number
- 1995-50-198
- 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: 175 cm (68 3/4 in.)
- Weft: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.)
- Height of repeat: 58 cm (22 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Rouen, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1995-50-198
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4556192e3-a6ee-4a92-b92e-4c0c26d45c6f
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