Elevation of an Apartment Interior
date: label: Date
content: 1749-1761
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of an apartment interior with tall, double doors at the center flanked by floor to ceiling windows that look out onto a garden with fountains, statues, and pedestrians. The walls of the interior are decorated with rocaille carvings and motifs including squirrels, foliage, cartouches, mascarons, scrolls, trophies, anguipeds, dolphins, acanthus leaves, birds, shells, and batwings. The plate is signed and numbered. A graphite inscription at the bottom of the plate indicates that this depicts the opposite view of 1921-6-216(70).
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: 1921-6-216-71
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper