Frontispiece
date: label: Date
content: 1812
name: label: Designer
content: François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818
label: Print Maker
content: Boutroy, French, active 1806 – 1812
label: Calligrapher
content: Demoiselle Vallet, French, active 1801 – 1812
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Louis Bance, French, 1761 – 1847
label: Publisher
content: Adrien-Georges Crapelet, French, 1789 – 1842
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Frontispiece with the title lettered in the center framed by a pavilion with columns, a fountain, statues on plinths, incense burners, and a pediment above. Below, a vignette with a seated man, writing on a tablet surrounded by bookshelves, flanked by lion fountains, featuring Empire style motifs and ornament. The plate is 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: 1921-6-552-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound Print
label: Type
content: Bound Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper