Design for a Frame
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an oval frame or medallion decorated with foliate branches, flowers, ribbons, medals with profile portraits. Below, a shelf or bracket with a palette, paint brushes, papers, a portfolio, and sculpted body parts, including a bust, and part of a back. The shelf/bracket is decorated with fluting, scrolling acanthus leaf clasp, and a festoon of leaves and ribbons.
place: label: probably made 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: 1921-6-400-10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Album of frames
label: Type
content: Album of frames
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper