Gate Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775–87
name: label: Designer
content: Caillouet, French, mid-18th century
label: Print Maker
content: de Saint-Morien, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a large gate featuring central double doors decorated with arrow heads, repeating wave pattern, the French royal cypher with the double L’s, trophies of armor, foliate branches, festoons of leaves, and topped with a blank cartouche. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-514-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving and etching on paper