Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings
date: label: Date
content: 1705
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Designer
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate nine from a pattern book with designs for firearm fittings and ornament featuring grotesque motifs, soldiers in battle, sphynx, putto and a ram, fantastical creatures, commedia dell’arte character, probably after Jacques Callot’s Balli di Sfessania (Nancy, ca. 1622), foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, and rosettes. The plate is numbered and 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: 1921-6-405-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper