Title Page
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: A.B. Duhamel, French, b. 1736
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of bed designs with two designs illustrated. Above, a bed with a crown canopy (baldachin) projecting from the wall along the side of the bed. The headboards and footboards are the same height, and the back of the board is upholstered with floral motifs and hanging swags of textiles. The frame is carved with running patterns, rosettes, and acorn finials. The canopy is topped with flowers and corner feather finials, draped with scalloped textiles with tassels. The bed curtains are tied back with ribbon and rope with tassels. The lower design illustrates the bed from a front view without the canopy. The bed linen is decorated with floral motifs and the skirt is decorated with hanging swags of textiles finished with passementeries and tied with ribbons and ropes with tassels. There is a scale below each design. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-395-15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper