Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1748
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Designer
content: Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748
label: Print Maker
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
label: Publisher
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ornament prints, designs for ecclesiastical metalwork. The title is lettered within a rococo cartouche formed by scrolling leaves, shells, and floral motifs. Topped by a nude female figure seated on a dolphin with a putto and a shell with foliate branches surrounding and fruit in the lower foreground. The cartouche is a copy in reverse of plate 4.A from Nouveaux Cartouches Chinois designed by Alexis Peyrotte, engraved by Gabriel Huquier, acc. No. 1921-6-522-4.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-464-1
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