Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1738–49
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
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 ornamental cartouches and vignettes with rococo and chinoiserie style motifs. The title and dedication are lettered in the center of a shell-like cartouche with flowers, scrolling leaves and branches surrounding it. In the foreground a coat of arms featuring stars and a crown framed by a rocaille cartouche and a lion to the left. The plate is numbered and signed with the publisher’s address below.
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: 1921-6-522-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper