Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of prints with the title and address lettered within a neoclassical frame featuring rosettes in the corners, a vase in the upper center with flowers and festoons of flowers. Brackets on either side with egg-shaped vases featuring gadrooning and wave motifs, with a lion in front and leafy branches. The brackets feature s-scrolls, festoons of laurel leaves, and scale patterns. In the lower center, a group of objects de vertu – etuis, vases, gold boxes, perfume bottles - surrounded by clouds, flowers, and leaves. The plate is signed and dated.
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: 1921-6-418-1
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