Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1730
name: label: Print Maker
content: de La Collombe, French, active 1702 – 1739
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for firearms ornament. The lettering is framed within curved lines, fronds and acanthus leaves, topped with a bird flanked by trophies of flags and weapons. The sheet is decorated with vignettes of the figure of Victory, the head of Apollo, the French Royal coat of arms, a profile portrait with a crown of laurels, two figures looking at firearms across a table and a horseman hunting deer. Two vertical designs of firearms ornament flank the page along the right and left margins of the plate. The plate is signed and dated.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-325-1
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