Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1784
name: label: Designer
content: Michel, French, active 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Arabesque design with winged figures blowing trumpets at the center of the composition, seated near an altar with a torch. The bottom half of the figures transform into acanthus leaves. The arabesque also features a basket of flowers at the bottom, spiraling reeds, garlands of flowers, twisting snakes with arrow tongues, and squirrels. The plate is not signed or 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: 1921-6-362-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper