Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1774–88
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
label: Dedicatee
content: Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, French, 1774 – 1846
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and design for an ornamental casket decorated with neoclassical motifs including a classical scene with figures: women, a putto, faun, and lions in a landscape, framed by fluting with fleurons, rosettes, gadrooning, scrolling leaves (rinceaux). On the lid, three, winged putto, with fruit and baskets, and hanging festoons of flowers with ribbons. The casket is supported by Egyptian style sphinx in the corners, with scrolling leaves, and rosettes. The plate is titled but trimmed and missing original lettering and signatures.
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: 1921-6-310-52
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