Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1777–79
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for interior wall decoration. The title is lettered below a design for a wall in a bathroom, featuring ornately painted wall panels and a bath in a niche, with a large panel above. The panels feature fish, a swan, flowers, beads, shells, nets, festoons of flowers, tritons, pearls, coral, ribbons, scrolling leaves, and fleurons. The bath is decorated with gadrooning, pears, and hanging festoons. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-392-1
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 × 49.4 cm (12 1/2 × 19 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.1 × 46.3 cm (10 11/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.8 × 45.9 cm (10 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)