Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Paris qui crie, petits métiers
(Manuscripts and Rare Books)
In the late 19th century, new influences in design meant leaving behind the rigid conventions of the rectangle. Here, binder Petrus Ruban creates a pattern of gold-tooled rosettes that flows across the entire book, wrapping around both front and back and conveying a sense of movement. This is in direct contrast with the tradition of treating each cover and the book's spine independently from each other, enclosing the spaces in a border with symmetrical design elements at corners and center.
Provenance
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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2013-2014 | Bookbindings from the Gilded Age. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 3/8 × W: 7 1/16 × D: 7/8 in. (23.81 × 17.94 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
92.1081