Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1778
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
label: Print Maker
content: Etienne Claude Voysard, French, 1746 - 1812
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page with the title lettered in the center of an oval medallion framed by festoons of flowers and trophies within a rectangular frame with a laurel leaf molding. The frame is topped with an acanthus leaf clasp and a trophy representing the arts with a lyre, sheets of music, palette, paintbrushes, and a portfolio. Below the oval frame, more attributes to the arts and science with a painting on an easel, sculptures, portrait bust, classical fluted column, a globe, paintbrushes, palette, telescope, guitar or lute, musette, or bagpipe, print with geometric instructions, and flowers. The plate is dated and signed with the publisher’s address.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-389-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper