Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1715-19
name: label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of fireplace (chimney piece and mantel) designs. The title is lettered above a section from an interior wall elevation featuring a fireplace and sections of wall paneling (boiseries) on either side. The mantel, overmantel mirror frame and paneling are decorated with rococo motifs – scrolling leaves (rinceaux), acanthus leaves, fleurons, cartouches, strapwork, c-scrolls, and shell motifs. There are wall sconces on either side of the overmantel mirror with two candles each. The design of the ornament for each of the panels varies. The overmantel mirror is topped with a painting of a man wrestling a bull in a landscape. There is a plan view of the mantel shape and a scale below the design. The plate is numbered and signed with the publisher’s address below.
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: 1921-6-385-7
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