Designs for Carved Trophies
date: label: Date
content: 1740-1748
name: label: Designer
content: François Roumier, French, 16..–1748
label: Print Maker
content: François Roumier, French, 16..–1748
label: Publisher
content: Chez Daumont, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
label: Dedicatee
content: Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page printed with two narrow plates of trophies set within frames with acanthus leaves, scrolls, and shells at the top and the bottom. The trophy of the left plate features a cartouche with an Old Testament scene of Christ being scourged, an angel holding a cat-o-nine tails, a flag with the Roman SPQR on it, a thorny branch, and an executioner’s ax and glove. The trophy on the right plate features a cartouche with an Old Testament scene of Christ on the cross, a helmet and a snake with an apple in its mouth. Neither plate is signed; both are numbered.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-219-6
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