NOUVEAU LIVRE D’ORNEMENTS Inventés par P. Ludovik. 1768
date: label: Date
content: 1768
name: label: Designer
content: P. Ludovik, French?, active mid 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Bertrand Dandrillon, French, 1725 – 1784
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Designer
content: Pierre Edme Babel, French, 1720–1775
label: Designer
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Album with six plates of rococo ornament designs featuring cartouches, rocaille scrolls, shells, scrolling leaves, and military emblems. Bound in a three-quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, gold tooling on spine with green leather lettering piece with ‘P. Ludovik 1768’ tooled in gold. The plates are signed and numbered. The title page is dated.
label: Description
content: Drawings in reverse are in the Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (National Trust), England. There is no record of a P. Ludovik or Ludwig active at the time. It is suggested by Alastair Laing that these designs may have been by the publisher Mondhare. Some of the drawings at Waddesdon are signed ‘Babel f.’ and have been attributed to P.E. Babel by Peter Fuhring.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-461
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0