Textile, Paul et Virginie, ca. 1795 (CH 18667477-4)
Summary
A series of pictorial vignettes illustrating the story of Paul and Virginia as originally told in the novel by Bernadin de St-Pierre (1788) and later in an opera (which changed the ending of the original story) by Kreutzer and Favieres (1791). Scenes include a shipwreck and scenes on a tropical island. In red on white.
Tags
Date
1795
Source
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Copyright info
public domain