Design for a Cartouche
date: label: Date
content: 1760
name: label: Designer
content: François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800
label: Print Maker
content: François Nicolas Martinet, French, 1731– ca. 1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a cartouche featuring ecclesiastical (religious) objects and motifs, including tablets, a cross, eagle, books, winged putti masks (mascarons), candelabrum, lion, festoons of flowers, shells, vases of flowers, caps, vestments, ewer, chalice, incense burner (thurible), scrolling leaves, c-scrolls, and scrolling acanthus leaves. The plate is signed and dated.
place: label: probably produced in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-399-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper