Designs for Carved Trophies
date: label: Date
content: 1740-1748
name: label: Designer
content: François Roumier, French, 16..–1748
label: Print Maker
content: François Roumier, French, 16..–1748
label: Publisher
content: Chez Daumont, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Daumont, French, active 1740-1775
label: Dedicatee
content: Robert de Cotte, French, 1656–1735
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Page printed with two narrow plates of trophies set within frames with acanthus leaves, scrolls, and shells at the top and the bottom. The trophy of the left plate features Christian iconography including a crown, an angel, a chalice, a sword, an ax, and a bag spilling coins. At the center is a cartouche with an Old Testament scene. The trophy on the right plate has a cartouche at its center with a scene of the Israelites blowing their horns around the walls of Jericho. Neither plate is signed; both are numbered.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-219-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper