Plate 2, "Decoration de cheminée pour un grand Apartement"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1727
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Printed from two plates. A) a richly decorated fireplace with a mirror set into a shallow niche. Decoration: foliage, flowers, putti, and a painting representing the birth of Venus in the upper part of the mirror. Candlesticks with putti on mantlepiece. B) profiles of wall with legend. Inscribed along lower margin of A: "Decoration de Cheminée, accopagnée … une Gallerie"; along lower margin of B: "A Paris chez Mariette … d'Hercules"; lower left: "2".
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-85-38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.3 × 27.9 cm (16 1/4 in. × 11 in.)