This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions), and as such we offer a high-resolution image of it. See our image rights statement.

 

See more objects with the color grey dimgrey darkslategrey darkslategrey or see all the colors for this object.

Object Timeline

1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Bound Print, Allegorial Frontispiece

This is a Bound print. It was designed by René-Michel Slodtz and print maker: Jean Jacques Flipart and published by Marguerite Caillou Chéreau and François Blondel. It is dated 1751 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 62.8 × 45.4 cm (24 3/4 × 17 7/8 in.) Platemark: 54.8 × 36.1 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.) Image: 51.2 × 34.5 cm (20 3/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Inventé et Dessiné par Michel-Ange Slodtz; Lettered lower right, in plate: Gravé par Jean Jacques Flipart

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 1921-6-207(23)

Cite this object as

Bound Print, Allegorial Frontispiece; Designed by René-Michel Slodtz (French, 1705–1764); Print Maker: Jean Jacques Flipart (Franch, 1719–1782); Published by François Blondel, Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active 1729–1755); France; engraving on laid paper; Sheet: 62.8 × 45.4 cm (24 3/4 × 17 7/8 in.) Platemark: 54.8 × 36.1 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.) Image: 51.2 × 34.5 cm (20 3/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-207-23

This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18221485/ |title=Bound Print, Allegorial Frontispiece |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=12 March 2025 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>