Furnishing Fabric
1750-1799 (made)
This cotton, plate printed in red on a plain weave ground, takes its name 'The Chariot of Dawn' from the dominant scene in the pattern repeat, taken from an engraving of Guido Reni's 'Aurora' (1614), a ceiling fresco in the casino of the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome. A proof of an engraving by Raphael Morgen following the drawing by Antonio Cavalluci (1787) is preserved in the British Museum (Guidus Rheni pinx / Antonius Cavallucci delin. / Raphael Morghen sculp Romae, 1843,0513.1089).
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | plain weave cotton, plate printed |
| Brief description | plate printed cotton, about 1785-9, French; Nantes, Petitpierre et Cie. |
| Physical description | This cotton, plate printed in red on a plain weave ground, takes its name 'The Chariot of Dawn' from the dominant scene in the pattern repeat, taken from an engraving of Guido Reni's 'Aurora' (1614), a ceiling fresco in the casino of the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome. A proof of an engraving by Raphael Morgen following the drawing by Antonio Cavalluci (1787) is preserved in the British Museum (Guidus Rheni pinx / Antonius Cavallucci delin. / Raphael Morghen sculp Romae, 1843,0513.1089). |
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| Content description | Chariot of Dawn |
| Object history | Purchased from Madame Mayoux, a Parisian gallery owner and collector, along with other printed cottons, in 1919. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Sarah Grant, Toiles de Jouy. French Printed Cottons (London: V&A Publishing, 2010), pp. 86-7, no. 44. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.474-1919 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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