Designs for Cartouches
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1900
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Charles Auguste Foulard, French, 1870–1920
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page printed with two plates of cartouche designs. The cartouche on the left has behind it a female figure wearing a breast plate and holding a spear; an owl at her left hand indicates she might be Minerva/Athena. The cartouche on the right has a crown at top and a column on the left topped by Minerva/Athena, and a column at right with Hercules with his club. Both plates are signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-230-52
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Photomechanical print