Plate 2, 'Decoration de cheminée pour un grand Apartement', Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705 - 1774, Jean Mariette, 1660–1742, Engraving on paper, Printed from two plates. A) a richly decorated fireplace with a mirror set into a shallow niche. Decoration: foliage, flowers, putti, and a painting representing the birth of Venus in the upper part of the mirror. Candlesticks with putti on mantlepiece. B) profiles of wall with legend. Inscribed along lower margin of A: 'Decoration de Cheminée, accopagnée … une Gallerie'; along lower margin of B: 'A Paris chez Mariette … d'Hercules'

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