PLUSIEURS PORTAILS ET PORTES Composés et Gravés par L.G Taraval
date: label: Date
content: 1768–75
name: label: Designer
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A series of Neoclassical architectural designs for porticos and exterior facades of buildings with religious, Christian iconography featuring motifs associated with the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece and Rome. The plates are signed, titled, and numbered. Three quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards, red leather lettering piece on spine with 'Taraval' tooled in gold, and marbled endleaves.
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: 1921-6-485
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 x D: 29.1 × 23.5 × 0.8 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/4 × 5/16 in.)