Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1749–61
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of bifurcated grotesque ornament panel designs, intended to be used with a mirror to illustrate a full-page effect. The title is lettered in the center within an architectural frame, a roundel above on a lintel flanked by incense burners, supported by four atlases (sculpted male statues as columns) with a base below. Framed by a canopy, a male figure seated above with a swan, with grotesque ornament featuring birds, fleurons, rinceaux, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, drapery, strapwork, scrolling acanthus leaves, vases of flowers, and festoons of flowers. The publishers’ address is lettered below.
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: 1921-6-422-1
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