Louis XV Style
All Resolutions
Louis XV style.
Description:
Ornamental plate in the rocaille style, combining stylized seashell forms with dense botanical ornament, including flowers, trailing vines, and acanthus leaves, along with putti and mythological figures.
This book consists of an incomplete series of twenty-six plates gathered in no particular order. The inscriptions suggest that these plates were first published in a series of installments and later privately bound into book form. This would explain why the usual markers of regular book publishing, such as publication date, colophon, etc., are missing. The front flyleaf bears minimal handwritten information, notably the possible year of the binding work: 1841.
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