Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1779–84
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of designs for interior wall decoration. The title is lettered below a design for a wall with ornately painted panels and a bathtub in a niche, decorated with ‘chinoiseries’ (European decorative arts and architectural style inspired by fanciful ideas of China and East Asia) motifs. The paneling features fantastical canopied structures with hanging bells and trellises, with nets, fish, leaves, and spears. There is a wall fountain in the shape of a bow of a boat, with water pouring out onto a large shell and then into the bathtub, with leaves on either side. A double canopy hangs above topped with feathers, scalloped floral textiles with hanging bells and tassels. 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: 1921-6-392-19
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
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 × 49.6 cm (12 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 27 × 46 cm (10 5/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.5 × 45.5 cm (10 7/16 × 17 15/16 in.)