Les Greffes (Grafts), Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate

A brown wash drawing in a circular vignette shows a man in a long coat and cap grafting a young tree while a woman in a bonnet and long dress watches. A boy kneels in front, and two workers dig and rake in a garden beside a classical building. The caption Les Greffes appears below.

Artist

Jean Charles Develly

Date

1821–24

Medium

Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1558 × 1600 px

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