Design for Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer), Le Zodiaque Travesti

A brown-ink and wash drawing framed by a ruled border shows a vaulted interior where a seated figure in a cap extends a hand toward a standing woman in a bonnet holding a child. A caption in cursive script appears below the scene.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1824

Medium

Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon, graphite on cream laid p

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1780 × 2240 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum