Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Berthelot, French, active late 18th century
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 festoons of flowers and leaves, ribbons, olive branches, wheat, scrolling acanthus leaves, beads, fleurons, flowers, hanging bow and arrow, quiver of arrows and a torch. A winged putti holding an arrow, standing on a globe above an incense burner decorated with rams’ heads and snakes, on a platform with a roundel in the center, and mask below. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-335-33
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