Heraldic Achievement Designs and Devices
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–early 18th century
name: label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719
label: Print Maker
content: Nicolas Guérard, French, ca.1648 – 1719
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One design for a heraldic achievement with a device in the shield and three designs for allegorical vignettes related to military victory with nude male figures representing the prisoners/ vanquished, arms and armor, drums, an eagle, and military flags. Five roundels with devices and text in between the other larger designs. The designs are in outline and the plate is 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: 1921-6-339-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper