L'Eau
date: label: Date
content: 1758–64
name: label: Designer
content: Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, French, 1730 - 1805
label: Retailer
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An ornamental hanging trophy design representing the element of water with its attributes, including parts of a ship, sails, nets, jugs, a trident, shells, reeds, cattails, water, an anchor, pearls, medallions, and coral. The plate is signed and titled. The publisher’s address has been partly rubbed out and the name ‘Mondhare’ has been added later. The plate is hand colored.
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
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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: 1921-6-299-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hand-colored etching and engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 48.8 × 32.1 cm (19 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 45 × 21.5 cm (17 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 42.6 × 19.7 cm (16 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)