Title Page
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for jewelry, boxes, snuffboxes, rings, seals, cane handles and other small luxury objects. The title is lettered below a set of designs for four circular boxes, four cane handles and four rings with two other designs for unidentified round objects, possibly buttons or smaller boxes. The designs feature neoclassical motifs and ornament such as rosettes, festoons of flowers, beading, tassels, gadrooning, repeating friezes, fleurons, fretwork diaper pattern, stars, and ribbons. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-304-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper