Arabesque Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two vertical arabesque ornament designs with neoclassical motifs featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, wheat, foliate branches, festoons of flowers and leaves, dragons, birds, winged female terminal figures, vases, satyrs, winged putto, squirrels, miniatures with classical figures and putti, and a sphynx. 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: 1921-6-335-36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper