Cartouche Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1759
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, French, 1726 – 1782
label: Publisher
content: Longchamps, French, active 1750 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for rococo cartouches. The upper design is of a cartouche set onto a plinth surrounded by spears, flags, drums, canons, canon balls, swords, trumpets, and arrows. The cartouche features c-scrolls and shell motifs, topped with a crown of laurel leaves. The plinth features a festoon of leaves. The lower design is a fountain with a central cartouche featuring a shell and mask, from where the water pours out into a basin in the shape of a shell. The wall of the fountain has a grotto-like effect with c-scroll and s-scroll motifs, topped with a vase with sprigs of leaves, and a garland of flowers and leaves. In the background trees and branches. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-378-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper