Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1792–1814
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of bed designs. The title is lettered above a design for a bed in the style of a pulpit. The bed is illustrated in profile and in plan form from above to show the shape and dimensions of the canopy and the base. The bed is decorated with neoclassical and empire style ornament and motifs, featuring head posts with fluted columns and a mask and foot posts with a vase finial. The ornament features fleurons and rosettes on the soft furnishings and bed frame. Bed curtains with passementerie and tassels hang from the canopy and along the base of the bed. The bed is rectangular, and the canopy is circular. 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: 1921-6-348-1
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