Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A vertical arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, olive branches, wheat, festoons of flowers and leaves, rosettes, fleurons, a vase, birds, putti, a seated man, classical figures, a roundel of a woman, a mask, vignette with putto, and draped textiles with passementerie and tassels. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Berthelot, French, active late 18th century
- 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
- Type
