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This is a photograph of a textured surface. It depicts a close-up view of a dark, slightly textured material. The texture creates a pattern of small, pebble-like shapes covering the entire area within the image boundaries. The surface is primarily dark blue or black, with a thin red border visible along the left edge. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting the surface's texture.
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This is a photograph of a textured surface. It depicts a close-up view of a dark, slightly textured material. The texture creates a pattern of small, pebble-like shapes covering the entire area within the image boundaries. The surface is primarily dark blue or black, with a thin red border visible along the left edge. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting the surface's texture.

National Gallery of Art · Volume

A New Book of Ornaments Useful to All Artists

Simon Gribelin II

Date
1704
Medium
bound volume with 12 engravings (including title page) on laid paper
Dimensions
book: 20.5 × 26.5 × 1 cm (8 1/16 × 10 7/16 × 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume · Print
Accession number
1944.5.8
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Time span
1701 to 1725
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • British
Inscription

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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NGA object ID 30353. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.