Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1743
name: label: Designer
content: Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guelard, French, 1719–ca. 1755
label: Publisher
content: François-Philippe Charpentier, France, 1734–1817
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate 1 of a series of 23. Title plate for an album of prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. Large winged rocaille escutcheon with shell motifs at center, upon which is printed the book’s title. At left, a kneeling monkey wearing pince-nez with paintbrush and palette adds the album’s title to the cartouche. Above the wing at left, the upper body of a monkey visible, wearing a feathered hat. At right, another monkey figure crouching behind the title. He wears a pointed hat and holds a cup or portion of bread upside down on a flat stone. Beside him is an amphora of wine and a butter knife.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-319-1
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.4 × 31.8 cm (10 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.)