Two Frame Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1785-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two rectangular frame designs, arranged horizontally on the page. The sight edge of the frame on the left has a bead and bar course, followed by fluted cove, and then gadrooning and leaves at the back edge. The top of the frame has a lunette with a shell within it, and branches of leaves extending beyond the border of the frame. On top of each corner is a pinecone final. The bottom of the frame has a garland of roses, tied at the center with a ribbon. The frame on the right has a lamb's tongue and dart back edge, fluted cove interior, and a running bead and leaf sight edge. The top of the frame has a lunette at the center, into which is carved a ribbon with a garland of roses. Small, lidded vases are carved on top of the frame, at either corner. The bottom of the frame has pedestal feet at either corner. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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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: 1921-6-278-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper