Design for a Cartouche
date: label: Date
content: 1740
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761
label: Engraver
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A cartouche configured to serve as a console. It is embellished with heads of dogs, clusters of grapes, garlands, and fruit. A fountain is at right, bottles and a large melon below. At left, a stag, a hurdy-gurdy with its horn and flags blowing in the wind.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-326-24
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 24.3 x 21 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 32.8 x 23.9 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)