Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1762
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French, 1724 - 1806
label: Engraver
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for the second series of six plates of tailpieces and fleurons originally designed for the 1755-1759 four-volume edition of the Fables de La Fontaine. In the upper section, a beehive with bees, a caduceus (winged staff with intertwined snakes), a basket of fruit, a mask, and a flowing textile, with flowers and leaves sit amongst clouds with sunrays in the background. The title is lettered in the lower half of the plate with clouds surrounding it. 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
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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: 1921-6-234-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 27 x 21.6 cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.)