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Quatrieme Livre De Formes Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons chinois

Ornament Print
1736 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print from a set of designs for rococo ornament.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleQuatrieme Livre De Formes Ornées de Rocailles Cartels Figures Oyseaux et Dragons chinois (suite title)
Materials and techniques
etching
Brief description
Antoine Aveline after Jean Mondon. One of seven plates from a suite of rococo designs, Paris, 1736.
Physical description
Print from a set of designs for rococo ornament.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 22.9cm
  • Approx. width: 17.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Avec Privilege du Roy Mondon le Fils Inv. A. Aveline Sculp' (Lettered with publisher's series letter and)
  • '3' (Numbered)
Object history
A later impression of E.359-1952, published by Charpentier, is in the Department of Print and Drawings, no.28990.B.
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Accession number
E.361-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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