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date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808
label: Print Maker
content: Louis Jacob, French, 1712 – 1802
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Allegorical vignette representing music from a series of twelve (including title page). The title is lettered in the center within a classical temple façade, framed by two fluted columns, and an entablature with a frieze of triglyphs and a cornice supporting a trophy of a garland of laurel leaves, palm leaves and a draped textile. Above the title is a roundel portrait of Mansard. In the background, scaffolding, and a large wooden wheel. In the foreground, a putto sits to the left, holding calipers and surrounded by architectural plans and measuring tools, with a capital to the left. Lettering below the vignette and the plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-361-7
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