Recueil de cent planches de décoration: extraites du Journal-manuel de peintures

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

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1874
Place: Paris
Publisher: A. Morel & Cie
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
Shelf locator: MLO++ (Recueil de cent planches de décoration)
Topics
Decoration and ornament
Genres
Prints
Drawings
Design drawings
Physical Description
Extent: 100 plates : ill. ; 46 cm. [pages 44 x 29 cm.]
Lithographs
Chromolithographs
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13984077
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6a9fd3d0-c6cd-012f-05f2-58d385a7bc34
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