Snuffbox Design
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a double-lined frame, a design for a circular snuffbox, with a view of the lid from above, in the upper center and a view of the side, in the lower center. In the center of the lid, a seated putti holding a rifle with a hand on a dog in a rural landscape. The roundel miniature is surrounded by a band of alternating shell and palmette motifs with a garland of flowers. An outer band along the edge featuring leaves and a ribbon. The side of the snuffbox features a central cartouche of dogs within a rural landscape, framed by shell and fleuron motifs with ‘rocaille’ scrolls, flanked by a band of ‘rocaille’ scrolls and acanthus leaf ornament. A scale in the lower center. The plate is signed, dated, 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: 1921-6-369-3
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