Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1742–55
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760
label: Publisher
content: François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755
label: Dedicatee
content: Jean-Charles Garnier d'Isle, French, 1697 – 1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for ironwork and ornament. The title is lettered in the center framed within a rococo frame made up of c-scrolls, palm leaves, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers, topped with a shell cartouche framing a coat of arms in the center with three bunches of wheat, flanked by lions and a crown on top.
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: 1921-6-309-1
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