Three Designs for Decorative Ironwork
date: label: Date
content: 1759–68
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Francois Nicole, French, ca. 1700 – ca. 1783
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three designs for decorative ironwork, two hanging lanterns with their brackets, lower left and upper right with a section of a banister in the center. The decorative ironwork features rococo ornament and motifs, including c-scrolls, acanthus leaves, shells, and fleurons. The lower left hanging lantern bracket features a creature’s head, garlands of flowers, interlaced L’s topped with a crown and rococo ornament and motifs. The upper right hanging lantern features three dogs, crossed keys and fleurs-de-lys with rococo ornament and motifs. The plate is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Nancy, 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: 1921-6-210-7
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: 45.2 × 60.5 cm (17 13/16 × 23 13/16 in.)