Design for Rococo Ornament
date: label: Date
content: 1768
name: label: Designer
content: P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century
label: Designer
content: Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Bertrand Dandrillon, French, 1725 – 1784
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for rococo ornament featuring scrolling shells, leaves, cartouches, on a plinth. The plate is numbered and signed. The drawing without text, in reverse is at Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (National Trust), acc. No. 1324, cat. No. 219h. The drawing has the signature Babel[y?] f. in the lower right base of the plinth.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-461-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper