Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: François Voisin, French, active 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs. A central shallow vase with scrolling acanthus leaves, fleruons, beading and gadrooning, sprouting foliage and four birds and a butterfly on the sides of the vase and above. Below the vase a frieze, crickets, a festoon of laurel leaves, a draped textile decorated with a head and similar motif. Below more scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, and foliage. The plate is signed and numbered.
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
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-335-23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper