Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1777-79
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for interior wall decoration. The title is lettered below a design for a wall with ornately painted panels and a canopy bed (Polish bed or lit à la polonaise) set into a niche in the center. The paneling is decorated with arms and armor, spears with flags, drums, canon balls, smoke, leaves, festoons of leaves and flowers, roosters, tassels, scrolling acanthus leaves, and crowns. The niche is framed by a laurel leaf and ribbon molding. The canopy is topped with swords, spears with flags, and a helmet with feathers. The bed posts are in the shape of canons. The textiles on the bed are decorated with rosettes, and festoons of laurel leaves and flowers, tied with ribbons and tassels. The plate is numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-392-7
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: 31.9 × 49.4 cm (12 9/16 × 19 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.1 × 46.2 cm (10 11/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.6 × 45.8 cm (10 1/2 × 18 1/16 in.)