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Livre de Desseins Chinois, Tirés d'Après des Originaux De Perse, Des Indes, De La Chine et Du Japon

Etching
1735 (First published)
Artist/Maker
Jean-Antoine Fraisse (Designer)
Fraisse (Printmaker)
Ph. Nic. Lottin (Printer and publisher)
Place of origin
Paris (Published)

Etching.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleLivre de Desseins Chinois, Tirés d'Après des Originaux De Perse, Des Indes, De La Chine et Du Japon (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Jean-Antoine Fraisse, 1 of 48 plates, no title plate, from the Livre de Desseins Chinois etc., Paris, first published 1735.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 31cm
  • Width: 19.5cm
Object history
Probably first edition.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 162, 29 (1).
  • (IFF) Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 –, vol. IX, p. 293.
  • Not in Berlin. See long note in V&A Micromedia catalogue on the two editions in the collection.
  • Miller, S., 'Jean-Antoine Fraisse, "Gravé par Huquier"' in Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996, No. 31:127-130.
  • Miller, S., 'Jean-Antoine Fraisse at Chantilly: French Images of Asia' in The East Asian Library Journal, Spring 2000, Vol. IX, No. 1: 78-221.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
25452:13

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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