Eight Tailpiece Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Eisen, French, 1720–1778
label: Designer
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Eight individual designs for tailpieces featuring putti or children and female figures. The vignettes depict different scenes and settings including pastoral scenes with putti playing in landscapes. Two of the tailpieces feature putti with a female figure in clouds with cornucopia, flowers, and a wheel (upper left, and lower right). Top right: putti in two boats. Lower left: putti looking at a large print and below a putto dressed as a jester with other putti.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-288-2
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