Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344–350, plate 52 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi

March 20, 1785 · Etching; printed in dark brown ink, and watercolor · Drawings and Prints

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).

Artist

Michelangelo Pergolesi

Date

March 20, 1785

Medium

Etching; printed in dark brown ink, and watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008