A New Book of Ornaments Useful to All Artists

1704

Simon Gribelin II

Associated Names
Simon Gribelin II

Artist, English, 1661 - 1733

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 12 engravings (including title page) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 20.5 × 26.5 × 1 cm (8 1/16 × 10 7/16 × 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1944.5.8

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

on title page, in plate, at center: A Book of ORNAMENTS By S. Gribelin / A / NEW BOOK / OF ORNAMENTS / Useful to all Artists. / DEDICATED / To the Honourable / Colonel Parsons / These XVI Plates are now made up into One Book of XII Leaves; / And the 8 Small Ones are thus Printed, to make the Whole more Regular. Price 3 Shillings. / S.G. Invt. Sculp. et Excudit. MDCCIV.

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