L’ORDRE IONIQUE
date: label: Date
content: 1768–75
name: label: Designer
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a portico featuring Neoclassical motifs associated with the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece and Rome. A large rectangular portico, with stairs leading up to the doors. The entablature is supported by ionic columns with a frieze above made up of pilasters, cartouches, and sun rays in the center. The doorway is flanked by statues in arched niches with a wave pattern motif and an architrave featuring a frieze of figures above the door. The whole is topped by a sculpture of the French coat of arms flanked by angels. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-485-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 28.6 × 21.2 cm (11 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 17.6 × 14.8 cm (6 15/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 16.4 × 13.9 cm (6 7/16 × 5 1/2 in.)