DESCRIPTION DES FÊTES DONNÉES PAR LA VILLE DE STRASBOURG Pour la Convalescence du Roi : à l’arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette Ville.
date: label: Date
content: 1745
name: label: Designer
content: Johann Martin Weis, French, 1711 - 1751
label: Engraver
content: Martin Marvie, French, 1713–1813
label: Engraver
content: Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
label: Calligrapher
content: Le Parmentier, French, active 1737–1752
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Nineteenth page (recto) of the engraved text describing the festivities framed in a rocaille border, with the French royal coat of arms, flanked by flags on the top. Cartouches with a fleur-de-lys on both sides of the border, with roundel portraits hanging below. The city of Strasbourg’s coat of arms in a cartouche on the bottom. Twentieth page (verso) of the engraved text framed in a three-sided rocaille border, topped with the three fleurs-de-lys in a cartouche above. A small tailpiece vignette featuring putti, barrels of wine and flowers is above a larger tailpiece framed in a rocaille cartouche featuring a ribbon with a Latin inscription and the city of Strasbourg’s coat of arms. The tailpiece vignette shows a detailed scene with a large crowd of people at night, in front of an illuminated stage within the city of Strasbourg, with buildings in the background. The vignette is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
content: Strasbourg, 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: 1921-6-208-23
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
label: Dimensions
content: Recto:
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 62.3 × 46.6 cm (24 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 51.5 × 38.8 cm (20 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 50.9 × 38.5 cm (20 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Verso:
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 62.3 × 46.6 cm (24 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 51.2 × 38.2 cm (20 3/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 50.2 × 37.8 cm (19 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)