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Livre de divers desseins d'ornements

Furniture Design
1740 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print from a set of 9 plates of designs for tables, mouldings and carved picture frames.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLivre de divers desseins d'ornements (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Plate from a set of 9 prints of designs for tables, mouldings and carved picture frames entitled 'Livre de divers desseins d'ornements'. Engravings by Jean-Joseph Balechou, after Thomas Lainé, 1740.
Physical description
Print from a set of 9 plates of designs for tables, mouldings and carved picture frames.
Dimensions
  • Approx height: 31.8cm
  • Approx width: 20.3cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'6' (Numbered in ink)
Object history
Other impressions of Pl.3, 10-12 (E.314, 320, 322) are in the Department of Prints and Drawings, E.97-100-1928. They are from a later edition published in Paris by the widow of F. Chereau.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Accession number
E.316-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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