About this artwork
This watercolor design of water lilies and other aquatic plants on paper is a mise-en-carte, or weaving draft, meant to serve as a bridge between the original design and the woven textile. Prepared on paper with a grid pattern whose lines represent warps and wefts, such drafts provided instructions for preparing the loom and for color usuage. Professional mise-en-carte readers were sometimes employed to assist the weavers and help them understand the designer’s intensions.
-A Global View: Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2012-2016, April 8-September 5, 2016
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Leblanc (Firm) (Printer)
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Title
- Point Paper (mise-en-carte)
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Place
- France (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1870–1890
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Medium
- Opaque watercolor (gouache) over graphite with black ink on mold paper
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Dimensions
- 42.7 × 49.7 cm (16 7/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Matted: 46 × 55.8 cm (18 1/8 × 22 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Christopher Monkhouse in honor of Christa Thurman
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Reference Number
- 2012.933
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/217073/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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