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Print

late 17th century (printed)
Artist/Maker
Louis Desplaces (designer)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Etching and engraving, designs for a silver candlestick.

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Metalwork
Interiors
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Etching and engraving
Brief description
Designs for a silver candlestick, etchings and engravings, Louis Desplaces after Juste Aurèle Meissonier, France, late 17th century.
Physical description
Etching and engraving, designs for a silver candlestick.
Dimensions
  • 27th height: cm
  • Width: 21cm
Dimensions taken from Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
Subjects depicted
Candlesticks
Etchings
Engravings
Designs
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
  • Snodin Michael, Howard Maurice, Ornament. A social History Since 1450, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996, 47.
  • 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), 21.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1663-1977

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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