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Quatrieme Livre De Formes Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons chinois

Ornament Print
1736 (published)
Artist/Maker
Aveline, Antoine (printmaker)
Mondon, Jean (designer)
Place of origin
Paris (published)

Title page from a set of designs for rococo ornament.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Designs
Object type
Ornament print
TitleQuatrieme Livre De Formes Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons chinois (series title)
Materials and techniques
etching
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Antoine Aveline after Jean Mondon. One of seven plates from a suite of rococo designs, Paris, 1736.
Physical description
Title page from a set of designs for rococo ornament.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 22.9cm
  • Approx. width: 17.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Styles
French School
Rococo
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Se Vend a Paris Chez Mondon le Fils ruë St Eloy a l'Hôtel Pepin. Et Chez A. Aveline ruë Saint Jacques' (Lettered with title, date and)
  • 'Avec Privilege du Roy' (Lettered with publisher's series letter and)
  • '1' (Numbered)
Object history
A later impression of E.359-1952, published by Charpentier, is in the Department of Print and Drawings, no.28990.B.
Associated object
28990B (Version)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Berlin Staatliche Museen: Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung. Berlin & Leipzig, 1936-39.
  • Hollstenin, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, c.1450-1700. Amsterdam, 1949-.
  • Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenthy Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, vol. 3, 12039-12043.
  • Snodin, Michael (ed.), assisted by Elspeth Moncrieff, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England (exh. cat.: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16 May – 30 September 1984), 22.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.359-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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