Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1774–88
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
label: Dedicatee
content: Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, French, 1774 – 1846
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and design for a round lidded box for powder (as part of a toilet service), decorated with an oval vignette with putti gathering wheat in a landscape with a female sculpture on a pedestal, framed by foliate branches, ribbons, mermaids, running patterns of leaves, fluting and gadrooning. The lid is topped with a finial of two winged putti seated with festoons of flowers and a bird. The plate is numbered, titled, and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-310-55
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper