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Print, Ornamental Design from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres", No.2, Inventés et dessinés par Jean Pillement. Gravés par Anne Allen. "

This is a Print. It was created by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and etched by Anne Allen. It is dated after 1775 and we acquired it in 1921. Its medium is etching with colored inks à la poupé on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

  • Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration
  • pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper .
  • Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and....
  • 1994-64-1

Its dimensions are

19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) Platemark: 19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) 24.4 x 20 cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: Blind stamp: Cooper Union Museum New York [Lugt 457e] Registration pin holes at top left corner; lower left corner and lower right corner, all just inside plate mark.

It is signed

In plate lower left, printed in brown ink: Pillement in. In plate lower right, printed in green ink: Anne Allen s.

It is inscribed

Lower left inside plate mark, in graphite, arranged vertically: B/2 Lower right to right of plate mark, in graphite: B.2 (erased) Lower right corner, in graphite: 5 Verso: Lower left in graphite: Nouvelles suites / de cahiers... No.1 Lower right in graphite: dupl of / 1938-57-20

Cite this object as

Print, Ornamental Design from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres", No.2, Inventés et dessinés par Jean Pillement. Gravés par Anne Allen. "; Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808); Etched by Anne Allen (English, active France, ca. 1750–1810); France; etching with colored inks à la poupé on off-white laid paper; 19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) Platemark: 19.3 x 14 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) 24.4 x 20 cm (9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-41-21

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