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L'architecture, la décoration, l'ameublement, [between 1869 and 1874?]

Summary

Collection ID:
SIL-CH.XXXX-0005
Creators:
Ostergard, Derek E.
Prignot, Eugène
Dates:
[between 1869 and 1874?]
Languages:
French
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Physical Description:
1 Volume
[1], 136, [3] p. of plates
all ill.
32 cm.
Repository:
A collection of French Second Empire designs for interior decoration, including doors, walls, beds, fire-places, sitting-rooms, draperies, clocks, ceilings, and frames for mirrors and paintings.

More Information

General note

General note
Cooper-Hewitt Library copy is apparently a proof copy or working collection of plates originally owned by Prignot. DSI
General note
Title transcribed from first p. of plates, which reproduces the undated t.p. of the Claessen (Paris) ed. of l'Architecture, la decoration, l'ameublement.
General note
Sepia-toned photographic reproductions on varying sizes of paper, mounted on blank silk leaves. Most of the prints are stamped, partly on the paper and partly on the silk, with "E. Prignot."


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Architecture -- Details Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Furniture, French Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Interior decoration -- France Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Decoration and ornament -- Second Empire style Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Decoration and ornament -- France Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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