Title Page and Snuffbox Design
date: label: Date
content: 1710
name: label: Designer
content: G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713
label: Print Maker
content: G. Roberday, French, active 1697 – 1713
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for snuffbox lids, one above the other. The upper design features the title and date of the series. Both designs feature grotesque ornament, strapwork, mascarons (masks), scrolling acanthus leaves, grapes, monkeys, a ram’s head, and mythological figures. The lower design features a man and a woman dancing in the center of the ornamental borders. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-423-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 15 × 10.5 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 11.4 × 7.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 10.5 × 6.2 cm (4 1/8 × 2 7/16 in.)