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date: label: Date
content: 1760-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Janel, French, active 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a stagecoach with images showing the profile, the face of the carriage, and a detailed diagram of the spring mechanism. At left, is a key of the plan for the design. The stagecoach is richly decorated with painted scenes of putti on clouds and carved with ornament motifs including ribbon twist, rosettes, urns, and lamb tongue. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-413-2
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