Les laques du Coromandel

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
Séguy, E. A. (Artist)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1923
Place: Paris
Publisher: Librarie centrale des beaux-arts
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
Shelf locator: MNX+ (Seguy, E. A. Laques du Coromandel)
Topics
Lacquer and lacquering -- China
Genres
Photographs
Prints
Notes
Ownership: John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection
Statement of responsibility: 50 planches publiées sous la direction et avec une introduction de E.-A. Séguy
Physical Description
Extent: 3 p. l., 50 pl. (part. col.) 41 cm
Collotypes
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 39480643
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13967363
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9d9d7c90-c6f7-012f-4a42-3c075448cc4b
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