Design for a Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1740
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710–86
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An escutcheon stands in a landscape with classical ruins. Printed on it: "RECUEIL / de differentes Etudes / de Testes / Gravées d'apres les Desseins / d'Excellens Maitres des / differentes Ecolles"; signed, bottom left, on a stone slab: "J Legeau inv. Et. Sculp." Bottom Margin: Another signature of Le Geau's is hardly visible, and the address of a publisher deleted. Instead: "A Paris chés Le Pere et Avaulez rue S. Jacques."
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-28-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 × 26.2 cm (14 in. × 10 5/16 in.)