Two Designs for Trophies
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Publisher
content: Roubiliac, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: First plate from a series of designs for ornament prints of designs for small trophies. Only the first and second plates are known from this series. Two small trophies one above the other on the plate. The upper trophy is a bundle of musical instruments, a bagpipe, tambourine, flute with clouds behind and foliate branches with flowers and a feathered hat. The lower trophy is a bundle hanging from a loop by a tied ribbon. The bundle includes a lyre, a horn, a flaming torch, foliate branches and flowers and a laurel wreath or crown. The plate is numbered and signed with a publishers’ address.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-322-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon manner etching in red ink on laid paper