Dedication Page
date: label: Date
content: 1767–68
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771
label: Print Maker
content: Dominique Collin, French, 1725 – 1781
label: Designer
content: J.B. Bernard, French, active ca. 1767
label: Printer
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Dedicatee
content: Stanislaw I Leszczynski, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1677 – 1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Engraved dedication page to the king. The Engraved text is framed by a wrought-iron rococo design, incorporating acanthus leaf, floral, wave and shell c-scroll motifs, with a framed headpiece vignette of the designer's workshop with the king in the middle accompanied by the designer and other figures in courtly dress. The description of the vignette is engraved above within a rococo frame. A tailpiece, in the lower center of the frame, depicts putti working with tools and a furnace. The vignette is flanked by trophies of arrows in quivers. The plate is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Nancy, 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: 1921-6-210-1
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving and etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 45.2 x 60.5 cm (17 13/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 41.6 x 52.9 cm (16 3/8 x 20 13/16 in.)