Title Page

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Title page for a series of arabesque ornament designs with neoclassical motifs. The title is lettered upper center with a design below featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, festoons of flowers and leaves, ribbons, fleurons, oval miniatures, foliate branches and three nude female figures. The plate is signed.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
Print Maker
Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
Date
1788
Credit Line
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium
Etching and aquatint on laid paper
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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