Title Page: Cartouche Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775–86
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A rococo cartouche design and title page with the title and address lettered below the design. The cartouche features columns on the side, with masks, vases with shells and corals, festoons of flowers, shell, c-scroll, fluting, fleurons, foliate branches, and acanthus leaf motifs with strapwork and hoof feet. The plate is numbered and lettered.
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
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-271-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper