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Excavating Design

Excavating Design: 18th-century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection

On view November 4, 2005–January 8, 2006

The inaugural exhibition in Cooper-Hewitt’s new Ground Floor Gallery, Excavating Design showcases the Museum’s collection of works by eighteenth-century artists such as Piranesi and Le Lorrain that express a fascination with the design vocabulary of ancient Rome. Also on view is a selection of period objects from the souvenir trade that was built around the ritual of the Grand Tour.

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