Album of Designs for Architectural Details and Ornament
date: label: Date
content: 1647-55
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Print Maker
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An album with four series of designs for doors, porticos, triumphal arches, chimney pieces, funerary monuments, ornamental friezes, trophies, architectural details, ecclesiastical altars, and masks (mascarons), decorated with classical motifs. Each series includes a title page. The plates are numbered. Bound in a mottled calf binding with marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers.
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
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-446
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0