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Drawing, Cartoon for Cotton Printing: Don Quichotte [Don Quixote]

This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger and manufactured by Oberkampf & Cie.. Its medium is pen and black ink, gray wash, black chalk, squared for transfer on beige laid paper (six sheets joined). It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Among the Museum’s earliest acquisitions were thirty-five preliminary studies, cartoons, and trial proofs for eighteenth and early nineteenth-century copperplate-printed cottons produced in Jouy, Nantes, and other centers of French textile printing. Large cartoons showing the complete repeat are extremely rare; as working drawings they infrequently survived. Because of its commitment to documenting process from initial concept to final product, the Museum has actively added to the textile collection many of the fabrics corresponding to the designs.

In the case of “Don Quixote,” the design in the cartoon and fabric face in the same direction and there is some discrepancy in details. Since the image on the copperplate is reversed as it is printed, it can be concluded that the fabric shown here was made by a firm copying the original version.

This object was donated by Bridget Mahon.

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Drawing, Cartoon for Cotton Printing: Don Quichotte [Don Quixote]; Attributed to Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger (1739 – 1821); Manufactured by Oberkampf & Cie. (France); France; pen and black ink, gray wash, black chalk, squared for transfer on beige laid paper (six sheets joined); 1898-21-17-a

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.

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