Cartouche Design
date: label: Date
content: ca.1760–75
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A rectangular cartouche or frame design with a scrolling shell motif and a smaller oval cartouche framed by a crown of reeds above. Water flowing down the sides of the cartouche from the top of the frame, with fish, reeds, branches, and rockery forming along the lower sides, with another blank rectangular cartouche framed by a shell motif below, with more water flowing from the shell. The plate is numbered and lettered.
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
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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: 1921-6-270-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper