Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1778
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and design for four medallions or frames, oval and round, decorated with moldings and topped with trophies. The ornament and motifs include a ribbon and rosettes repeat pattern, leaves, festoon of leaves, fluting, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), flowers, musical instruments, lute, horn, oboe, agricultural tools, rake, stick, basket, jugs, potted succulents, leaves, and a distilling apparatus. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-389-82
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper