Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page with the title, designer and address titled within a neo-classical ornamental rectangular frame, decorated with hanging garlands of flowers from a central vase in the upper frame. On each side, brackets ornamented with scale patterns, s-scrolls, and laurel leaf garlands, each supporting an egg-shaped handled vase and a lion. Along the lower side of the frame, in the center a trophy of ‘objets de vertu’, snuffboxes, etuis, vases, flowers, palm leaves on clouds. The plate is signed and dated.
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: 1921-6-369-1
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