Interior Wall Elevation
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: L. Janneret, French, active late 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A wall elevation featuring rococo and neoclassical motifs. The wall is split in half with two different designs. To the right, a niche with a sofa, and a wall panel decorated with drapery, a lyre with a clock, olive branches, a horn, and cornucopia. Two narrow vertical panels flank the central panel with a frieze of intertwined olive branches. Below the dado level panel is decorated with vases of flowers, a putto, scrolling acanthus leaves, and fleurons. To the left, the central section is a window with a curtain, and a wall panel decorated with flowers, fleurons, a vase, festoons of flowers, and two birds, with the same narrow vertical flanking panels. Below the dado level panel is decorated with a mask framed by a garland of leaves, olive branches, and torches. The plate is signed and numbered. A scale along the right margin of the plate.
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: 1921-6-335-38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper