Designs for Firearms Ornament and Fittings
date: label: Date
content: 1705
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Designer
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Simonin, French, ca. 1635 – 1721
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Le Languedoc, French, active ca. 1684 – 1705
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate seven from a pattern book with designs for firearm fittings and ornament featuring grotesque motifs, male figures, captives, profile portraits of soldiers, fantastical creatures, demon bent over with smoke coming out of his behind, man in a mask shooting a bow - commedia dell’arte character, probably after Jacques Callot’s Balli di Sfessania (Nancy, ca. 1622) , man wrestling a lion, arms and armor, flags, birds, mascarons (masks), foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, and rosettes. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-405-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper