Title Page
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: Print Maker
content: Petit, French, active late 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Dedicatee
content: Morlot, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of twelve allegorical vignettes representing the arts and sciences. The title and publisher’s address are lettered in the center, framed by a garden trellis with flowers, grapes, and vine leaves. Below a base with a large basket of flowers, with festoons of flowers and fruit hanging over the edge. Fruit on either side with two small vases of flowers. Acanthus leaf scrolls on either side with a roundel portrait of an angel writing on a tablet in the center, flanking the base. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-361-1
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