Staircase Balustrade Design
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
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
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an ornamental ironwork staircase balustrade decorated with laurel leaves, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fleurons, rosettes, lamb’s tongue motif, s-scrolls, festoon of flowers, mascaron (mask), sphynx, and a cartouche. The plate is signed and numbered.
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
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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: 1921-6-427-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 40.7 × 25.7 cm (16 × 10 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37 × 24.3 cm (14 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 36.2 × 23 cm (14 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.)