Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1745
name: label: Designer
content: Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751
label: Print Maker
content: Martin Marvie, French, 1713–1813
label: Calligrapher
content: Le Parmentier, French, active 1737–1752
label: Printer
content: Laurent Aubert, French, active mid 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a festival book. The title is lettered within a rocaille border decorated with garlands of flowers, gadrooning, cartouches, and acanthus leaves with the royal coat of arms at the top, musical trophies at the sides, and the coat of arms for the city of Strasbourg, flanked by flags, drums at the bottom. The plate is signed.The plate has been scraped below the printer’s name, bottom center. This was most likely the location of the binder’s ticket before it was moved to the endleaf.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
content: Strasbourg, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-208-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 62.4 × 46.5 cm (24 9/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 51.7 × 38.1 cm (20 3/8 in. × 15 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 49.6 × 36.6 cm (19 1/2 × 14 7/16 in.)