Title Page
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page with the title lettered on a plinth or pedestal, topped with a crowned cartouche and grotesque motifs, shell, helmets, winged lions with breasts, mascarons (masks), festoons of leaves. A mascaron below framed by flaming torches, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, and cornucopia. Framing the plinth, on either side– banners, flags on spears, drums cannon, helmets, shields, quivers of arrows, and horns. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-411-22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper