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Drawing, Floral design for printed textiles
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Louis-Albert DuBois and manufactured by Fabrique de Fazy aux Bergues. It is dated 1800–1818 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on blue wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The Fazy factory was active in Geneva during the 18th and 19th
century and employed 1200 workers in the manufacture of printed
calicoes. These designs show variations of fanciful border patterns
that would have been used for block-printing dress fabric.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Multiple Choice, From Sample to Product," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
It is credited Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund.
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 20 x 24.5 cm (7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Image: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower left: D 497
Cite this object as
Drawing, Floral design for printed textiles; Designed by Louis-Albert DuBois (Swiss, 1752–1818); Manufactured by Fabrique de Fazy aux Bergues; Switzerland; brush and gouache, graphite on blue wove paper; Sheet: 20 x 24.5 cm (7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Image: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.); Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund; 1957-46-14
