Designs for Armchair Covers (Back and Seat)

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Designs for upholstered armchair covers (for the back and seat) featuring floral motifs, festoons of flowers, foliate branches, birds, quiver of arrows, rake, sheets of music, bagpipe, or musette, and scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux). Each design is labelled, the plate is numbered and signed.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
Print Maker
Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, French, 1737–1831
Publisher
Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
Date
1778
Credit Line
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium
Etching on laid paper
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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