Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca.1734-49
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ornament prints featuring rococo and chinoiserie motifs. The title is lettered to the right framed by a canopied structure with a landscape framed to the left with three figures seated and standing and a vase on a plinth. The ornament includes shells, leaves, wings, sprigs, and rosettes. The plate is signed with the publisher’s address.
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: 1921-6-490-11
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
label: Dimensions
content: 24.3 × 30.8 cm (9 9/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 15 × 21.6 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 13.9 × 20.8 cm (5 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.)