Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene inside a barn. Figure of a man lying on the ground, center middleground, leaning on his left arm, while holding his head with his right hand. Two wine bottles are next to him, his hat, right foreground, is to his left. Behind him a goat in his stall nuzzles the back of the man's head. The man exclaims, "Who is tickling me there?" An amorous couple, left background, stand in the doorway.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
1824
Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, image bordered in pen and brown ink
1989-13-47
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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