Frontispiece
date: label: Date
content: 1779
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Publisher
content: Jean-François Bastien, French, 1747 – 1824
label: Author
content: Abbé de Favre, French, 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page with the title lettered within a rectangular neo-classical cartouche/frame, decorated with festoons of flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, a mask, and a lyre. Below the title, a vignette with a putto holding up a mirror to a female putto seated on a plinth flanked by a winged hourglass. The plate is signed and inscribed in graphite.
place: label: published 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: 1921-6-337-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper