Designs for Firearms Ornament
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1743
name: label: Print Maker
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for firearms ornament featuring four cartouches with scenes relating to hunting and war alongside ornamental cartouches, vignettes with two men on a see-saw and fountain with a dog and a bird, alongside other ornamental details. The designs feature scrolls, leaves, shells, fronds, flowers and sprigs. The plate is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-325-11
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