Arabesque Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788–89
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Arabesque ornament design featuring neo-classical grotesque motifs, scrolling acanthus leaves, festoons of flowers, rosettes, arrows, female figures, masks, terminal figures, palmette, hanging trophies with musical instruments and masks, ribbons, ewers, putti, tambourines, and a winged female figure. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-337-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Aquatint and etching on laid paper