Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1693
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712
label: Designer
content: Louis Laguerre, French, 1663 – 1721
label: Print Maker
content: Paul van Somer II, Dutch, British, active 1670 – 1714
label: Publisher
content: Jean Tijou, French, active 1689 - 1712
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ironwork designs by Jean Tijou. In the upper half, figures standing around an ironwork panel with tools in the foreground. The figures include Mercury, Athena, and the personification of Time, along with putti, and the allegories for the arts represented by female figures. In the background a screen/gate, and other figures working. The title is lettered below from a hanging textile. Below, in the foreground, men working moving and handling ironwork ornamental details.
place: label: made in
content: England
label: published in
content: London, United Kingdom
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: 1921-6-410-1
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving and etching on laid paper