Etuis Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for etuis, side-by-side, with plan views below each showing the shape of the etuis from above. The etuis are decorated with rococo motifs including cartouches with trophies of instruments, arms and armor, flowers, a head with sunrays, c-scrolls, rinceaux, shells, s-scrolls, fleurons, rosettes, palm eaves, ribbons, acanthus leaves, and scale patterns. There is an unnumbered scale below. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-418-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper