Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters
date: label: Date
content: 1749-1761
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page printed with two plates of designs for vertical panels or pilasters. The left plate has three designs, decorated with, from left to right: architectural decoration with sphinxes; an Atlas supporting a trophy and a winged gorgon head; and an architectural decoration with mascaron and portrait. The right plate has three designs decorated with, from left to right: a male term holding a flag-bearing putto on his shoulder; a grotesque column with father time holding aloft a portrait medallion above which is a horn-blowing angel; and a grotesque with a female caryatid on top of which is a putto holding a trophy. The plates are both signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-216-98
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper