Interior Wall Elevation with a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1777–79
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an interior wall featuring ornately painted panels with a central chimneypiece, overmantel mirror, and large double glass-paneled windows on either side. The panels and the curtains include flowers, festoons of flowers, tassels, incense burners, ribbons, fleurons, and scrolling acanthus leaves. The backplate of the fireplace features the French Royal coat of arms, with a crown and three fleurs-de-lys. The mantel is decorated with leaves, and rosettes in the corners. The overmantel mirror is framed with a leaf and ribbon molding and draped with a textile and festoon of flowers. A garden with a staircase leading down and balustrade is faintly visible through the windows. The plate is numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-392-4
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 × 49.7 cm (12 1/2 × 19 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27.2 × 46.2 cm (10 11/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.8 × 45.8 cm (10 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.)