Profils Et Ornemens De Vases executez En Marbre, Bronze, et Plomb Dans les Jardins De Versailles, Trianon, Et Marly. Gravés par Marie Michelle Blondel. Avec Privilege du Roy.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2692

Imprint

Se vent à Paris: chez François Blondel Architecte du Roy rue neuve des petits Peres place des Victoires., [17--?]

Physical Description

[25] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 437 mm. (Folio).

Responsibility Note

All but one of the plates are signed as engraved by M. Michelle Blondel.

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Copy Note

All plates are pasted in. One sheet has pasted in an additional, smaller plate, showing two carpenters and signed as engraved by A Bocqure [?]. Twenty-two sheets have pasted in an additional, smaller plate - forming a series illustrating events of the Old Testament, signed as designed and made by F. Chauveau; one of which is dated 1671.

Binding Note

18th-century sprinkled calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.

Name as Subject

Subject

Bible., O.T.
Vases - Planters (containers) - Gardens - France - Versailles - Marly-le-Roi - History
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

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