Title Page
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of thirty plates of designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys and liturgical objects. The title and text is lettered on a tall cabinet/ piece of furniture within an arched alcove. Ornamental trophies relating to the arts, geometry and geography are sculpted in relief above the cabinet, with the head of apollo surrounded by sun rays above. The cabinet and the alcove are deocrated with rococo ornament and mascarons, with hanging trophies flanking the alcove. 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: 1921-6-236-2
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: 43.3 x 27.2 cm (17 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.)