Design for a Cartouche
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: Design for a cartouche formed by scrolling and undulating acanthus leaves, feathers, shells, and flowers, with ewers, and a plate in the lower section on a plinth at the base of the cartouche. Fruit, shells, and coral to the left. Trees in the background to the left. A naked female figure is seated atop the cartouche with a putto (child), and a dolphin, framed by a large shell. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-522-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper