Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of arabesque ornament designs with neoclassical motifs. The title is lettered above an arabesque design featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, s-scrolls, masks, putti terminal figures, profile portrait framed within a hanging garland, vignette with figures, hanging profile miniatures with standing nude figures, ribbons, flowers, hanging birds, an incense burner on a stand, festoons of flowers and fruit, fleurons, and rosettes. 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: 1921-6-335-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper