Cartoon for Printed Cotton: The Four Elements Les Quatre Elements, Hartmann et Fils, (Munster, France), B. M. Lebert, 1759-1836, Pen and black ink, traces of graphite on cream laid paper, mounted, A design is composed of four vignettes separated in pairs vertically in the center of the composition by a strip composed of trophies symbolizing the elements, and at the repeat, a similar unfinished panel along the upper left margin. The vignettes show: upper left, Juno seated in a chariot drawn over the clouds by peacocks accompanied by amoretti (personifying 'Air'); lower left, Vulcan forging armor (personifying 'Fire'); upper right, Saturn seated in a landscape holding a cornucopia and beside him a globe, quartered with four animals (personifying 'Earth'); lower right, Venus borne over the water on a shell drawn by dolphins, attended by amoretti (personifying 'Water')., Scale, in pen and black ink (according to Richard Wunder, by the artist's hand), lower margin., Munster, France, 1810-