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Designer:
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796  Search this
Print Maker:
Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?  Search this
Publisher:
Jean-François Bastien, French, 1747 – 1824  Search this
Author:
Abbé de Favre, French, 18th century  Search this
Medium:
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Object Name:
Print
Type:
Print
Published in:
Paris, France
Date:
1779
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Title page with the title lettered within a rectangular neo-classical cartouche/frame, decorated with festoons of flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, a mask, and a lyre. Below the title, a vignette with a putto holding up a mirror to a female putto seated on a plinth flanked by a winged hourglass. The plate is signed and inscribed in graphite.
Credit Line:
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number:
1921-6-337-9
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d07853a2-f798-4304-b730-9512c200f5fa
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1921-6-337-9