Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Details of the carving of the crossbeams of the armchair represented in 1921-6-279-43. The upper detail represents the carving on the front of the armchair, and includes ornament motifs including wave pattern and bead course. The lower detail represents the carving on the crossbeam of the backrest, featuring fluting, ribbon twist, and bead course. The profile of the carving is visible on the right. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- Pierre Claude Delagardette, French, 1745 - 1792
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Date
- 1775-1788
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36.9 × 22.7 cm (14 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)
- Platemark: 30 × 19 cm (11 13/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Image: 27 × 16.3 cm (10 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
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