Four Designs for Decorative Ironwork
date: label: Date
content: 1759–68
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771
label: Designer
content: Emmanuel Héré de Corny, French, 1705–1763
label: Print Maker
content: Dominique Collin, French, 1725 – 1781
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three designs for decorative wrought-iron balustrades and a banister, for the King’s apartment at Commercy, the City Hall of Nancy and a design by the architect E. Héré. The designs are decorated with rococo ornament and motifs, with acanthus leaves, palmettes, scrolls, fleurons, and leaves. The plate is numbered and titled below each design and signed.
place: label: published in
content: Nancy, 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: 1921-6-210-12
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