Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

An etched design shows a branching plant with feathery, drooping fronds rising from a slender stem, with a leafy sprig at lower right. Fine parallel hatching and thin contour lines model the foliage against blank paper inside a rectangular plate mark, set on a book page.

Artist

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Date

1765–73

Medium

Etching on laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3175 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum