Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A plate of six designs for the letters ‘Œ’, ‘Æ’, ‘W’ and ‘V’, from a series of decorative letters, published in Pouget’s ‘Dictionnaire des chifres […]’. The plate features six ornamental inhabited letter designs within pastoral landscapes, two per row, with rococo ornament, acanthus leaves, scrolling foliate, garlands of flowers, and friezes. The plate is numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Jean Baptiste Piauger, French, active 1760s
- Publisher
- Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, French, 1723? – 1773
- Author
- Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, French, d. 1769
- Date
- 1767
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Object Name
- Type
