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Engraving

after c. 1720 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Engraving

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Unknown engraver, copy of a plate from a suite of designs after P. P. Bacqueville for bed canopies and valances, the Livre d'Ornemens propres pour les meubles et pour les Peintres, published by Johann Christoph Weigel, German, eighteenth century.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Average size height: 26.3cm
  • Width: 17.7cm
Bibliographic reference
Not in Guilmard, Berlin or IFF (though the original series engraved by Späth after Bacqueville is, see 29217:1, 28368:1 and E.247-1950 for these). There is a series of prints with similar dimensions and compositions (ornamental vertical panels of allegorical designs) published by Weigel in the UPM.
Collection
Accession number
29217:2

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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