Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque ornament design featuring neoclassical motifs. A central incense burner decorated with gadrooning around its base, framed by festoons of flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, vases of flowers and fruit. Above a rectangular vignette with figures and animals, with a classical figure in a roundel supported by two mermen, with festoons of leaves and ribbons. Below the incense burner, a herm figure with scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes and a vase of fruit and leaves above their head, with baskets of fruits hanging from a festoon of leaves, with two birds above. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1921-6-335-11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper