Designs for the Letter B
date: label: Date
content: 1767
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, French, 1723? – 1773
label: Author
content: Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, French, d. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate of six designs for the letter ‘B’ from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget’s ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]’. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs, two per row for the letter ‘B’, featuring putti, nude female figures bathing, donkeys, a windmill, birds, and clouds, with rococo ornament, such as fleurons, acanthus leaves, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, and friezes. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-375-2
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