Box or Snuffbox Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a round box or a snuffbox featuring, from top to bottom, a view of the top of the box with a rosette, bead course, and branches; an elevation of the rim of the box lid, with bead course and fluting, and an elevation of the box with lid open at the hinge, and which has bands of wave, bead course, swirling acanthus leaves, and bound leaf ornamentation. The plate is signed, but not numbered. In comparison with other versions of the plate, it should be numbered 4.
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: 1921-6-278-120
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper