Designs for Firearms Ornament
date: label: Date
content: 1749
name: label: Print Maker
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for flintlock components, center and lower right alongside various designs for firearms ornament, including trophies, musical instruments, figures and animals, armor, a globe, birds, scrolls, cartouches, shells, an urn, a crown, columns, fronds, sprigs and acanthus leaves. The sheet is signed and dated. There is damage to the lower right corner of the sheet, with part of the printed image missing.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-325-7
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