Cartouche Design
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Gautrot, French, 16?? – 1739
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an asymmetrical cartouche framed by military motifs, including a helmet, birds, mascaron (mask), putto, spears with banners, quiver of arrows, festoons of leaves, shells, scrolling leaves (rinceaux) and palm leaves. The cartouche sits on a base decorated with an oval profile of a woman framed by a diaper and rosette patter. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-411-50
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper