Snuffbox Design
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a double-lined frame, a design for an oval snuffbox, with a view of the lid from above, in the upper center and a view of the side, in the lower center. A central oval scene of putti in a landscape with goats on the lid, framed by a garland of flowers and ribbons. The side of the lid features a central cartouche with a bird framed by shell and gadroon motifs, bands, fleurons, acanthus leaves, flowers, ribbons, and laurel leaves. A scale in the lower center. The plate is signed, and 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: 1921-6-369-2
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