Page of Text, Printed on Recto and Verso
date: label: Date
content: 1751
name: label: Calligrapher
content: Marie F. Lattré, French, active eighteenth century
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756
label: Publisher
content: Marguerite Caillou Chéreau, French, active 1729–1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page of text with elaborate border decoration, printed on recto and verso. The recto continues the general description of the festivities held on February 23, 1745 in honor of the wedding of Louis Dauphin and Maria Teresa of Spain, and outlines the symbolic meaning of the six temporary halls erected across Paris for the celebrations. The verso continues this description and begins a focused section on the "Wedding Temple" (Le Temple de l'Hymen) set up in the Place Dauphine.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-207-32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 62.6 × 45.5 cm (24 5/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 53.3 × 37.4 cm (21 in. × 14 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 51.3 × 35.7 cm (20 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)