Variations : quatre-vingt-six motifs décoratifs en vingt planches

Collection History

The digital collection draws upon the Library's exhibition, "Victorian Ornament: Excerpts from Design History," Dec. 9, 1989 - March 10, 1990, Edna Barnes Salomon Room, and supplements it with additional works through the 1920s. Holdings from the Victorian period, 1839-1900, are particularly strong covering America and Western Europe; these are often pattern or illustrated advice books. Other movements with representative, and often rare, titles include: Neoclassicism, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, and Art Deco.

Background

The Art & Architecture Collection has long been a repository of unusual plate books, with a core antiquarian collection dating to the initial creation of the Art Division. Many came from the private library of the architect Thomas Hastings, of the partnership, Carrere and Hastings, responsible for the Library's landmark classical revival building on Fifth Avenue. In the second half of the twentieth century, the department acquired additional significant titles retrospectively in response to growing recognition of the collection's depth and rarity.

Collection Data

Names
Saudé, Jean (Printer of plates)
Benedictus, Edouard (Artist)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1924 (Questionable)
Place: Paris
Publisher: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
Shelf locator: MLD++ (Benedictus. Variations)
Topics
Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms
Genres
Prints
Design drawings
Notes
Content: J.S. Billings Mem. Coll
Content: [the following information found in catalog record, but not in book]
Statement of responsibility: par Benedictus ; pochoirs de J. Saudé
Physical Description
Extent: 1 portfolio (20 leaves of plates) : 20 col. ill. ; 49 cm. [pages 45 x 34 cm.]
Pochoir prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13982563
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8da73a30-c6b7-012f-ac3b-58d385a7bc34
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