Cartouche Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1759
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782
label: Publisher
content: Longchamps, French, active 1750 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four designs for rococo cartouches featuring c-scrolls, s-scrolls, shell, and acanthus leaf motifs, with festoons of flowers and leaves. The top right cartouche is set onto a plinth surrounded by arms and armor, and spears with flags. The lower two cartouches are set within arches or archways, with only the upper sections of the arches visible. The upper left cartouche is freestanding with hanging festoons of textiles and flowers. The plate is signed and dated.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-378-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper