Interior Ornamented Wall with Windows and Pier-Glasses, nos. 267–273, plate 47 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi

February 27, 1784 · Etching and watercolor · Drawings and Prints

This design for an interior wall includes windows, pier glasses, pier tables and stools, with sections numbered 267 to 273. 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).

Artist

Michelangelo Pergolesi

Date

February 27, 1784

Medium

Etching and watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008