LA THÉOLOGIE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing theology from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center, framed by clouds, a pyramid, sun rays, putti, a trellis with grapes and vine leaves, a cross, textiles, a fluted column topped with a triangular storage box with a book inside, liturgical objects such as a chalice, and a thurible on an altar with more grapes and vine leaves. Bellow to the left, a putto partly dressed in vestments holds a quill and a book, with cardinals’ vestments below. To his right, a roundel portrait of Bossuet. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-361-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper