Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of tailpiece designs featuring putti or children. The title is lettered upper center with six designs for tailpieces below. The vignettes feature putti with rococo ornament, cartouches, and festoons of flowers. The rococo designs include c-scrolls, s-scrolls, shell, leaf, and mask motifs. The plate is signed with the publisher’s address below.
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
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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: 1921-6-288-4
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