Title: Plate 5: a cartouche with a blank escutcheon at top center, a chimera to either side, their bodies ending in scrollwork and dragon tails, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
Object type: Print; Ornament & Architecture
Date: ca. 1640–45
Portfolio: Twelve cartouches (Recueil de douze cartouches)
Artist:  François Collignon 
Artist bio: French, Nancy ca. 1610–1687 Rome
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching; second state of four
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 3 5/16 × 2 7/8 in. (8.4 × 7.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Shields, term: Cartouches