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Print, Title page, from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"
This is a Print. It was designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and print maker: Jean-Baptiste Pillement. It is dated ca. 1750 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor Garnier Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
Its dimensions are
42.6 × 27 cm (16 3/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark
It is inscribed
Title: "A New Book of/Chinese Ornaments/invented and engraved by J. Pillement." Right bottom corner: "J. Pillement inv./scul." Bottom center: "London, Printed for ROBERT SAYER No. 53, Fleet Street./Price 2s 6d." Top right, corner: "1."
Cite this object as
Print, Title page, from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808); France; etching on paper; 42.6 × 27 cm (16 3/4 × 10 5/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1920-36-204