L’HISTOIRE
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Ch. G. Coupeau, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing history from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center on a textile held up by an upside-down winged putto holding a scythe, representing father time. In the background clouds, trees, and foliage, with draped figures, monuments including a sphynx on a plinth. Below a putto reaches up at the fabric, holds a quill and leans against an open book, surrounded by a fragment form a column, medals, scrolls, an urn, garlands, bowls, books, and papers. On the edge of the base are symbols resembling hieroglyphs and a festoon of leaves. Lettering below the vignette and 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: 1921-6-361-13
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