Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four designs for borders, stacked vertically on the plate. From top to bottom, the borders are in the forms of: scrolling acanthus leaves and branches of leaves and flowers; a bead course in the center of the band surrounded by scrolling vines and acanthus leaves; a guilloche of flowers and leaves with rosettes in their center; a ribbon twist around a dowel, with the ribbon comprised of scanthus leaves, small leaves, and a band of carved leaf detail. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Date
- 1785-1788
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching on off-white laid paper
- Object Name
- Type
