Rococo engravings, two hundred plates of the eighteenth century
A 1922 London reference collection of two hundred eighteenth-century rococo engraved plates, compiled by art historian Peter Jessen for designers and craftsmen studying French ornament. The plates are printed as single pages with bold scrolling cartouches, shell-work frames, and framed vignettes. A designer can draw on their asymmetric scroll structure, where pictures sit inside pierced rocaille borders and the figures are small beside the ornament.
