Design for Porcelain Plate: Le Verseau (Aquarius), Develly, 1824

A man kneels on a ladder beside a stone building, pouring water from a jug beneath a window with arched panes. Brown wash and pen show a bare tree and a crescent moon in the night sky, with handwritten captions on the mounted sheet.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1824

Medium

Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream la

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1773 × 2240 px

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