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Arabesque Designs

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Two vertical arabesque ornament designs with neoclassical motifs featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, wheat, foliate branches, festoons of flowers and leaves, dragons, birds, winged female terminal figures, vases, satyrs, winged putto, squirrels, miniatures with classical figures and putti, and a sphynx. The plate is numbered and signed.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796
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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