Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings
date: label: Date
content: 1705?
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Designer
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate 3 from a pattern book with designs for firearm fittings and ornament featuring grotesque motifs, fantastical characters, shynx herms, winged putti, a crowned cartouche, mascarons (masks), a gorgon with snakes for hair, man on horseback hunting a deer with dogs, a cockerel, birds, animal (possibly a monkey), foliate scrolls, rosettes, fleurons, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-405-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper