Lectern Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1749-1761
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page with two plates printed next to one another. The left plate features designs for two elaborate lecterns, decorated with carved eagles, angels, ox heads (symbol of St. Luke), winged lions (St. Mark), and scroll and foliage ornamentation. The right plate features a design for a pulpit carved with ornamentation such as angel heads, wings, flaming hearts, lozenges, scrolls, and flowers; to the left is a design for a variation for the front of the pulpit, with a triangle in the center of a cloud with rays radiating from the center. The plates are signed and numbered, although the numbering of the right-side plate is not visible in the crease of the album fold.
place: 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: 1921-6-216-21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper