Two Arabesque Panel Designs
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sixth plate from a series of ornament panel designs. Two vertical panels with arabesque and neoclassical motifs including figures, putti, terminal figures, birds, banners, a canopy with a figure in the center, baskets of flowers, grapes, foliate branches, fleurons, rinceaux, rosettes, festoons of flowers, leaves and beads, and ribbons. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-308-11
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