Designs for Letters
date: label: Date
content: 1767
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, French, 1723? – 1773
label: Author
content: Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, French, d. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate of six designs for the letters ‘Œ’, ‘Æ’, ‘W’ and ‘V’, from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget’s ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]’. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs within pastoral landscapes, two per row, with rococo ornament, acanthus leaves, scrolling foliate, garlands of flowers, and friezes. The plate is numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-375-12
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