Title Page and Staircase Balustrade Design
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and design for an ornamental ironwork staircase balustrade decorated with arms and armor, French royal emblems including the fleurs-de-lys and head of Apollo with sun rays, palm leaves, festoons of leaves, fleurons, foliate scrolls (rinceaux), rosettes, foliate branches, ribbons, egg running pattern, lion and ram heads, fluting, profile portrait, putti crowning the French Royal coat of arms with three fleurs-de-lys, and scrolling leaf clasps. The title of the series is lettered above. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-427-13
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 40.7 × 25.8 cm (16 × 10 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.3 × 24.5 cm (14 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 36.2 × 23.6 cm (14 1/4 × 9 5/16 in.)