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Drawing, Design for a Rocaille Ornament
This is a Drawing. It was attributed to Frederick Crace and firm: Crace & Son. It is dated ca.1839 and we acquired it in 1948. Its medium is brush and gouache, gold paint on dark blue wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This ornament design elaborates on the eighteenth-century rococo cartouche form, adding a contemporary color palate of rose and gold against the dark blue paper and a broader, more swashbuckling bravura paint handling. The Crace firm had a variety of eighteenth-century rococo ornament prints as well as their own designs as sources of inspiration.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- Charger (France)
- tin-glazed earthenware.
- Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
- 2008-40-8
Its dimensions are
24.1 × 19.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Rocaille Ornament; Attributed to Frederick Crace (English, 1779–1859); Firm: Crace & Son; England; brush and gouache, gold paint on dark blue wove paper; 24.1 × 19.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1948-40-186
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
