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Algerian Pirates

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@ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Research in ProgressWithin a grid made up of a curving vine of fruits and flowers, an alternation of two scenes, each captioned in French. 'Les Pirates Algeriens' showing two young female goatherds being captured by five men in a boat while in the distance men run to their rescue, ' Un bazar d'escales a Alger' (A slave sale in Algeria) showing showing Europeans being sold in the slave market. In red on white.
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Physical Object
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Medium: Cotton Technique: Printed By Engraved Roller On Plain Weave
Rights:
Bequest of Elinor Merrell
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Smithsonian Institution