Cartouche (Framing) Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1754-69
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Girard, French, active ca.1750 – ca.1771
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Girard, French, active ca.1750 – ca.1771
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Charles François, French, 1717–1769
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two differently designed sides forming a large cartouche or framing device featuring asymmetrical curvilinear designs, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, flowers, scrolling leaves and feathers. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-316-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 39.4 × 29.3 cm (15 1/2 × 11 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 38.8 × 28.7 cm (15 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 28.2 × 23 cm (11 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)