Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1760
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French, 1724 - 1806
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of six plates of tailpieces and fleurons designed for the 1755-1759 four-volume illustrated edition of the Fables de La Fontaine. The upper half of the plate is illustrated with two crossed palm leaves with a snake in the form of a circle in the middle with flowers, grapes and leaves interlaced, with sun rays in the background emanating from the middle. The title and publisher’s address are lettered in the lower half of the plate. 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: 1921-6-234-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 26.8 x 21.3 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)