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Title Page Design for Le Zodiaque Travesti (Farcical Zodiac)

Jean-Charles Develly1824

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Figure of a court jester with the torso of a bare-breasted woman. The jester points to a zodiacal sign with his left hand (one of the twelve signs depicted on the border of the medallion); he holds the jester's prop in his right hand. The roundel is surrounded by calligraphic flourishes within which the title is entwined.

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