Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon
date: label: Date
content: 1615
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Jacquard, French, active ca. 1616 – d. 1652
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a keyhole escutcheon featuring grotesque motifs including hybrid creatures which are part-male, part-animal, part sphynx, and part-foliage, with surrounding scrolling leaves, flowers, jewels, and two figures hammering metalwork with flames in the background. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: 1921-6-448-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper