Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1787–95
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Publisher
content: François-Étienne Joubert, French, active 1787 – 1821
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of arabesque, ceiling, furniture, vase, and ornament designs. The title is lettered in the center of a vertical panel framed by arabesque ornament featuring mythological figures, winged men, acanthus leaf scrolls, vases, fleurons, palmettes, drapery, winged lions, herms, chestnuts, beads, scrolling foliage, figure of Apollo, a lyre, seated figure in a roundel, rosettes, festoons of flowers, miniature profile portraits in roundels, fruits in baskets, and flaming torches with smoke. The plate is numbered, signed and with the publisher’s address below framed by an arabesque cartouche.
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: 1921-6-372-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper