Title page, plate 1 from "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers chinois"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1760
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Anne Allen, English, active France, ca. 1750–1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A title page: two branches extend vertically at right and left, between which is strung a sheet which reads: 'Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers chinois a l'usage des déssinateurs et des Peintres. Inventés ed déssinés Par Jean Pillement. Gravés par Anné allen." Below, a staircase and imaginative botanicals rendered in various colors, which bleed into one another within the etched lines.
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: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-3
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching a la poupée and colored inks on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.2 × 17.6 cm (9 1/8 × 6 15/16 in.)