Banknote motif: ten different ornamental lathe work elements including a disk embellished with berries and flowers, a wreathed sword, a set of scales, a berried vine, an anchor and chain, a bracket of vine leaves and four designs for borders

Banknote motif: ten different ornamental lathe work elements including a disk embellished with berries and flowers, a wreathed sword, a set of scales, a berried vine, an anchor and chain, a bracket of vine leaves and four designs for borders by A. B. & C. Durand & Company|Durand, Perkins, and Company|Cyrus Durand

Medium

Engraving and etching on chine collé; proof

Dimensions

plate: 2 7/16 x 4 7/16 in. (6.2 x 11.3 cm) sheet: 4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 14 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002

Accession Number

2002.333.39

Tags

SwordsScales

About the Artist

A. B. & C. Durand & Company|Durand, Perkins, and Company|Cyrus Durand (American|American|American) · 1824 |1796 |1787 1832 |1886 |1868

American, active 1824–32|American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey|American, 1787–1868

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