Ornament Design with Two Dead Birds lying on Acanthus Branch, from Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 19 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
date: label: Date
content: 1748
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Engraver
content: Pierre-Quentin Chedel, 1705 – 1763
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two birds lie on top of a branch of acanthus leaves.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-212-9-e
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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
label: Dimensions
content: 16 x 11.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)