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Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament
William Delacour1741–47
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
First book (dedicated to Lord Middlesex): title page and six plates, dated 1741, of rocaille cartouches; second book (dedicated to the Earl of Holderness): title page and five rocaille motifs, dated 1742; third book (dedicated to the Duke of Rutland): title page and six plates of cartouches, dated 1743; fifth book; title page and fourteen plates (one bound upside down) of furniture, dated 1743; sixth and seventh books: title pages (half-size) and fourteen plates of cartouches, undated; eighth book: title page and six plates of jewelery, dated 1747.
Details
- Title: Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament
- Creator: William Delacour
- Creator Lifespan: 1741/1767
- Date Created: 1741–47
- Type: Bound volume
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Engravings on white laid paper, bound in half-calf and marbled boards
- Exhibitions: Washington D.C.- National Museum of American Art (then called NCFA), "Treasures from the Cooper Union Museum" July 13 - September 24, 1967, cat. no. 247.New York, NY - CHNDM, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008," March 7 - July 6, 2008.
- Dimensions: 41 x 23 cm (16 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
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