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Fantasy Flower Design

ca. 1796-1798
18th century
195 x 140 mm (7.7 x 5.5 in.)

Anne Allen, British (English)
After Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, (1728–1808)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Etching printed à la poupée in six colors from two copper plates on blue-tinged laid paper

Edition: From the Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers de Fleurs idéales à l’usage des dessinateurs et des Peintres par Jean Pillement Graves par Anne Allen

Bibliography: Carlson and Ittman, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715–1814 (Baltimore and Minneapolis: Baltimore Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984); Margaret Moran Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003), pp. 150–153.

Credit Line: John E. Andrus III (BA Wesleyan 1933) Fund and Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2013

Accession Number: 2013.14.1

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Chinoiserie, color printing*, fantasy, flowers (motifs)*, flowers (plants)*

Chinoiserie
color printing - Printing processes, generally involving materials such as dyes and inks, to produce a variety of shades of the visible spectrum. [February 1995 scope note added. January 1993 related term added. October 1991 descriptor moved. May 1991 related term added.]
fantasy
flowers (motifs) - Use For Term
flowers (plants) - Designates both the reproductive shoots of seed-bearing plants and entire flowering plants. [January 1995 descriptor changed, was "flowers"; alternate term changed, was "flower".]

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image Dimensions: 195 x 140 mm (7.7 x 5.5 in.)

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Anne Allen, British (English) Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, (1728–1808) . Fantasy Flower Design, ca. 1796-1798. Etching printed à la poupée in six colors from two copper plates on blue-tinged laid paper. image : 195 x 140 mm (7.7 x 5.5 in.). Sheet : 260 x 239 mm (10.2 x 9.4 in.). DAC accession number 2013.14.1. John E. Andrus III (BA Wesleyan 1933) Fund and Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2013.

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