Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching (platemarks 400 x 207 mm., sheets 435 x 277 mm., deckle edges), unsigned but by Jacop Wangner after Watteau,?numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right, imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius, excudit A. V. [Augustae Vindelicorum]. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.*** A perfectly preserved suite of six large rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's paintings for a folding screen, intended to be cut out by ladies for use in furniture decoration.? Watteau's influence on 18th-century decorative arts throughout Europe, by way of the many engravings after his work published by Gersaint, has long been recognized, but the use of the engravings as actual sheets to be cut up and applied to household objects has garnered little attention until recently. The vogue for decoupage probably first appeared in the late seventeenth century, and by the 1720s the hobby of cutting out colored prints for application to various household objects a