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Drawings after Ornament and Architecture
Jean-Robert Angoafter 1759
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Album bound in red morocco containing forty-two drawings of architectural and decorative ornamentation, executed by the artist in Italy. Each sheet has ruled ink border with additional green watercolor frame, inserted into laid paper mount.
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- Title: Drawings after Ornament and Architecture
- Creator: Jean-Robert Ango
- Creator Lifespan: 1759/1770
- Date Created: after 1759
- Type: Book
- Rights: Gift of Noah Butkin
- Medium: Red chalk on off-white laid paper
- Viewing Notes: This book of sketches, bound in red leather by a 19th century collector, serves as a visual journal of the young artist's stylistic development. Drawing architectural and decorative motifs from the classical buildings of Rome, it comprises sketches of rinceaux, ram's heads, columns and architectural friezes. Journals, or daybooks of this kind would be used by the artist as aide-memoires in the creation of major paintings. Often these books function as inventories of classical ornament and sculpture as well.
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Exhibitions: CHNDM - Excavating the Vocabulary of Design: 18th Century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection. [Ground floor gallery], November 4, 2005 - January 8, 2008.
- Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.3 cm (8 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
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