Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1662
name: label: Designer
content: Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Publisher
content: Hugues Brisville, French, active ca. 1663
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle showing scrolling arabesques entertwined with nude figures whose bodies terminate in acanthus leaves. At left, design for a bracket with two figures. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-261-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 20.5 × 15.5 cm (8 1/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 16.5 × 11.5 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)