Building Façade Set in a Garden
date: label: Date
content: 1749-1761
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: View of the façade of a pavilion-like structure in a garden. At the entrance of the building, faced with fluted columns, is a fountain of a river god, pouring out water from an urn. The pediment of the building is decorated with rocaille ornamentation of scrolling acanthus leaves and features a statue of an angel at the pinnacle of the pediment. A garden with fountains and parterres can be seen through the entrance and to the side of the structure. An inscription at the bottom of the page indicates that this design was part of a project for a garden grotto for the Elector of Cologne. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-216-59
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper