Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Claude-Louis Desrais, (French, 1746–1816)
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page from a series of six plates of arabesque panel designs. The title is lettered in the center within an oval cartouche, supported by figures and swans, surrounded by neo-classical arabesque ornament featuring flowers, plants, birds, butterflies, leaves, fleurons, putti, hearts, a chestnut, topped with the head of Apollo surrounded by sun rays, above a lyre, and caduceus. The plate is numbered and signed, with an inscription in red ink along the left side of the plate.
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
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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: 1921-6-296-1
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