Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1748
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748
label: Print Maker
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
label: Publisher
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Album of designs for ecclesiastical metalwork, including candelabra, sanctuary lamps, balustrades, and architectural details featuring rococo motifs and putti (children). The title page is a copy in reverse of a cartouche (plate 4.A) designed by Peyrotte and engraved and published by Huquier from Nouveaux Cartouches Chinois (1921-6-522-4). The designer Germain lettered on the title page could possibly be Thomas Germain but an attribution is unsure given the date of the edition and the earlier style of some of the designs, as explained by Peter Fuhring (1992, see bibliography for full reference). Other published references to the series list varying numbers of plates. It is possible that this album combines plates from different series of ornament prints.
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: 1921-6-464
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 36.3 × 25.5 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/16 in.)