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Description: | 23.7 x 34.5 (page) s. on plate b. "AParis chez Huquier Rue Saint Jacques, et chez la Vve Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2 pilliers / avec privilege du Roy"; inscr on plate t. r. "1"; inscr on plate in catrouche "LIVRE NOUVEAU / de / Differents trophees / INVENTEZ / par / A. WATTEAU. / e Grave / par Huquier." CRE HUQUIER, Gabriel; (French; 1695-1772) AFTER WATTEAU, Antoine; (French; 1684-1721) PUB Huquier, Gabriel; (French; 1695-1772) NFA assisted purchase. This is the frontispiece of a complete serie of 11 prints, which is bound together with 6 other complete suites in 18th century marbled paper-covered limp boards. It is an important collection of French pattern plates for craftsmen and their patrons dating from the first decade of the genre pittoresque known much later as rococo. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DECORATIVE : PATTERN BOOK : CARTOUCHE : CHILD : DESIGN : ROCOCO : FRONTISPIECE : CHERUB : SEA : FISH : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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