Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Mondon, French, fl. 1736 – 1745
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: Étienne Charpentier, French, 1704 – 1793
label: Dedicatee
content: Henri Camille de Beringhen, French, 1693 – 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of carriage designs. The title and dedication are lettered in the lower center framed by a cartouche within a larger for the back of a carriage featuring the coat of arms of the dedicatee within a landscape surrounded by spears with flags, griffins, a bust, paint palette and brushes, with a fountain in the background. The frame is decorated with rococo motifs and ornament, c-scrolls, shells, cartouches, festoons of flowers, scrolling leaves, and fluting. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-367-7
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