Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of arabesque ornament designs featuring neoclassical motifs. The title is lettered in the upper center with two vertical designs below. The designs feature festoons of flowers and leaves, an incense burner, flaming torches, birds, a flying putto, bow and arrow, a nude female figure, butterflies, a male mask, snakes, textiles, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, dogs, and vases. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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: 1921-6-335-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper