Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Title page for a series of bed designs featuring a design for a canopy bed (view from the side) with upholstered headboard and footboard of the same heights. The posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown canopy above, topped with feather finials. The bed linen is decorated with flowers, scrolling leaves, cornucopia of flowers and fruit, rosettes, festoons of flowers, and birds. The bed curtains are scalloped with passementerie and tassels. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
- 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
- late 18th century
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on laid paper
- Object Name
- Type
