Candelabra Designs and Stair Railing Designs, nos. CCCXCV–CCCXCVII and 398–400, plate 60 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi

April 1, 1792 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Candelabra Designs and Stair Railing Designs, nos. CCCXCV–CCCXCVII and 398–400, plate 60 from "Designs for Various Ornaments" — Michelangelo Pergolesi

These designs for candelabra and ornamental railings are numbered CCCXCV to CCCXCVII and 398 to 400. 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: April 1, 1792
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

Candelabra Designs and Stair Railing Designs, nos. CCCXCV–CCCXCVII and 398–400, plate 60 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

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