Designer:

Bellay, French, active from 1734  Search this

Publisher:

Johann Georg Merz, German, 1694 – 1762  Search this

Medium:

Etching on paper

Object Name:

Print

Type:

Print

Made in:

France

Date:

ca. 1740-1762

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Lettered title-page to a series of German ornamental prints, after an earlier French edition. The title is printed in both German and French within a rococo-style frame, decorated with leaves, flowers, fronds, acanthus leaves, a socle with a cartouche, figures and birds. The plate is numbered, lettered and signed.

Credit Line:

Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council

Accession Number:

1921-6-301-1

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq447398f84-170c-4dcd-aa52-66d98d1c3a17

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1921-6-301-1