LA GUERRE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing war from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center on a piece of fabric tied to a spear, framed by a palm tree, clouds, and a putto holding a sword and wearing a helmet. Below, the hull of a ship is decorated with a mask, festoons of laurel leaves, and a quiver of arrows. Within the hull, there are arms and armor, an oval portrait of the Vicomte de Turene, and olive branches. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-360-2
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