Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"

after 1721

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

The scene shows a peacock and poultry between an urn, left, and a classical ruin, right. A bird flies overhead, and near the top of the composition dogs pursue a stag.

Details

Title: Trial Proof for Cotton Printing: "Pastoral Scene with Peacocks and Poultry"
Date Created: after 1721
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/6756
Medium: Copper engraving in brown gum paste on eight sheets of laid paper with deckle edges, framed in two parts
Credit line: Gift of Bridget Mahon

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