La Terre
date: label: Date
content: 1758–64
name: label: Designer
content: Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, French, 1730 - 1805
label: Retailer
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An ornamental hanging trophy design representing the element of earth with its attributes, including baskets of fruit and flowers, foliate branches, flowers, bunches of wheat, watering jug, sickle, scythe, rake, and other agricultural hand tools. The plate is titled and signed. The publisher’s address has been partly rubbed out and the name ‘Mondhare’ has been added later. The plate is hand colored.
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
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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: 1921-6-299-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hand-colored etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 48.6 × 31.9 cm (19 1/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 44.3 × 22.8 cm (17 7/16 × 9 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 43.3 × 22 cm (17 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)