Window Balustrade Designs
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Eight designs for ornamental ironwork window balustrades featuring neoclassical motifs, repeating patterns, c-scrolls, fleurons, festoons of leaves, rosettes, interlaced motifs, diamonds, and roundels. 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: 1921-6-427-4
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: 40.7 × 25.9 cm (16 × 10 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.3 × 24.4 cm (14 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 34.8 × 22.9 cm (13 11/16 × 9 in.)