Title Page: Arabesque Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page with two vertical arabesque ornament designs featuring fleurons, festoons of leaves and flowers, flaming torches, an incense burner, drapery, urns, masks, birds, putti, rosettes, scrolling acanthus leaf motifs, butterflies, dogs, snakes, and a nude female figure with a basket of fruit and foliage on her head. The plate is titled and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-336-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Aquatint and etching on laid paper