1759

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Source:

Title: Unpublished.
Author: Jean-Michel Papillon
Printer: -
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: -
Year: 1759
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2].

Comments:

In a private collection: Coll. Violle?.

Some discussions on Twitter about these illustrations.

Unpublished mid 18C drawings by Jean-Michel Papillon, produced for Diderot’s Encyclopaedia but never used.

Technique:

Drawings.

Publications

Robert M. Kelly (2013) The Backstory of Wallpaper: Paper-Hangings 1650-1750 Wallpaperscholar.com

Françoise Teynac, Pierre Nolot and Jean Denis Vivien (1981) Le Monde du papier peint. Paris, Berger-Levrault. (English translation 1982: Wallpaper: a history, Thames & Hudson) pages 27-36.

Pierre Gusman (1924) ‘J.B. Papillon et ses papiers de tenture (1698-1776)’ . Byblis, tome IX, pages 18-23.