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Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental

Print
1759 (first published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Page from a volume containing the following four suites of prints bound together:
Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental;
Chinese Architecture. Part the Second;
Gothic Architecture Decorated;
Gothic Architecture, Part the Second.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental (suite title)
  • Gothic Architecture Decorated (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching and engraving
Brief description
Paul Decker, 1 of 23 plates, plus a frontispiece, from 'Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental', London, 1759.
Physical description
Page from a volume containing the following four suites of prints bound together:
Chinese Architecture, Civil and Ornamental;
Chinese Architecture. Part the Second;
Gothic Architecture Decorated;
Gothic Architecture, Part the Second.
Dimensions
  • Average size of volume page height: 23cm
  • Average size of volume page width: 28.2cm
  • Volume depth: 2cm
Marks and inscriptions
Bibliographic reference
(Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 3419.
Collection
Accession number
E.6640-1905

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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