Object Details
- Artist
- William Delacour, French, 1741 – 1767
- Engraver
- François Vivares, French, 1709 – 1782
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- 1741–47
- Accession Number
- 1962-126-1-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Bound volume
- Type
- Bound volume
- Medium
- Engravings on white laid paper, bound in half-calf and marbled boards
- Dimensions
- Open: 41.4 x 48.1 x 11.7 cm (16 5/16 x 18 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
- designed in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1962-126-1-8
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dcf5b66e-15b8-41c0-b0fc-2e4907e3c277
