Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation
date: label: Date
content: 1711
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Thuret, French, 1669–1738
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Panel design filled with symmetrical, grotesque ornaments, with motifs of mythology centering on the god Apollo. At the center, Apollo, with bow and lyre, stands over a dragon and between four rearing horses. There are rondels on either side with scenes of the flaying of Marsyas (left) and Apollo and Daphne (right). Signs of the Zodiac form a half-halo at top. The plate is signed and features a lettering, "E," at the bottom.
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: 1921-6-201-6
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper