Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1890–1910
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
label: Publisher
content: Charles Auguste Foulard, French, 1870–1920
label: Publisher
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of wrought iron or metalwork balustrades, grilles, and gates. The title is lettered within an ironwork cartouche with a balustrade along the bottom. The design features c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling leaves, cartouches, palm leaves, fleurons, festoons of flowers, baskets of flowers, trophies of arms and armor, an eagle, female figure on a cloud, and putti. This series is a late 19th-early 20th-century reproduction from a series first published between 1738-1743.
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: 1921-6-452-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Facsimile of the original etching (photomechanical or lithography)