Designs for the Letters X, Y, Z
date: label: Date
content: 1767
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, French, 1723? – 1773
label: Author
content: Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, French, d. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate of six designs for the letters ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’, from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget’s ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]’. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs, two per row, featuring a winged putto, a male figure by a river, a horse, a quiver with arrows, clouds, and pastoral landscapes, with rococo ornament, acanthus leaves, rosettes, scrolling foliate, garlands of flowers, and friezes. The plate is 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: 1921-6-375-11
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