Title Page and Window Balustrade Designs
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and four designs for ornamental ironwork window balustrades featuring neoclassical motifs – an oval profile portrait, vases, laurel leaf festoons, rosettes, flowers, trophies, wave pattern, helmets, shields, swords, and interlaced L’s (French Royal cypher). The title of the series is lettered above. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-427-1
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 40.7 × 26 cm (16 × 10 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.2 × 24.4 cm (14 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 34.9 × 22.8 cm (13 3/4 × 9 in.)