Album of Ornanment Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1738–61
name: label: Designer
content: Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769
label: Designer
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Eighteen plates bound in a volume from three different print series, all published by Gabriel Huquier. The first two series of six prints each, labelled A and B, are after designs by Peyrotte. The last six plates are designed by Huquier and are from a series of twelve. The ornament designs feature rocaille motifs, acanthus leaves, shells, c-scrolls, flowers, fruits, fretwork, rosettes, gadrooning, palmettes etc.
label: Description
content: Binding: Mottled calf with gold tooling on covers, edges, and spine, red leather lettering piece with ‘ORNEMENT/ ROCAILLE/ PAR/ PEYROTTE’ tooled in gold, marbled endpapers and red edges (red of endpapers is brighter). Probably 19th century.
place: label: designed in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-213
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Book
label: Type
content: Book
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bound volume
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 53.3 x 43.8 cm (21x17 1/4 in.)