Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca.1734–37
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ornament prints with arabesque motifs. The title is lettered in the center, framed by a rococo cartouche frame featuring fleurons, c-scrolls, rinceaux, birds, leaves, rosettes, terminal figures, birds, feathers, acanthus leaves, and a smaller pear-shaped cartouche in the lower center. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-490-1
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 23.7 × 30.7 cm (9 5/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 15.3 × 20.9 cm (6 in. × 8 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 14 × 20 cm (5 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)