Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344–350 ("Designs for Various Ornaments," pl. 52) March 20, 1785 Michelangelo Pergolesi This design for an interior wall includes doors, a mantlepiece, benches and ornamented panels, with sections numbered 344 to 350. The print comes from a group created and published serially in London by Pergolesi between 1777 and 1792. There is no title page, but a prospectus of ca. 1786 described the group as: "A great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medallions, friezes, pilasters, panels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and grotesq
Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344–350 ("Designs for Various Ornaments," pl. 52) March 20, 1785 Michelangelo Pergolesi This design for an interior wall includes doors, a mantlepiece, benches and ornamented panels, with sections numbered 344 to 350. The print comes from a group created and published serially in London by Pergolesi between 1777 and 1792. There is no title page, but a prospectus of ca. 1786 described the group as: "A great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medallions, friezes, pilasters, panels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and grotesque style." The complete set contains 67 plates numbered 1-66 (two are numbered 56), with designs within the plates irregularly numbered 1-435 (in Roman numerals at first, with Arabic numbers later introduced). In 1801, after Pergolesi's death, four additional plates of designs were published by a bookseller Dulouchamp (or Dulonchamp).. Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344–350 ("Designs for Various Ornaments," pl. 52). Michelangelo Pergolesi (Italian, active from 1760–died 1801). March 20, 1785. Etching; printed in dark brown ink, and watercolor
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