Iconologies ou sont representés les Vertues, les Vices, les Sciences, les Arts, et les divinites de la Fable en 216. Estampes jnventeés et Graveés par Huquier.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2407
Imprint
A Paris: chez le dit Huquier, rue des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne., [1768]
Physical Description
Engr. t.-pl., [108] leaves carrying [216] pl.; 271×405 mm. (Oblong).
General Note
The plates are lettered and numbered A1-12, B1-12 etc. to S1-12. (there is no J1-12).
Responsibility Note
Each plate is signed as printed by Huquier ('Huquier ex.'). Some (usually the first and last within each letter sequence) carry his publisher's imprint.
References
Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cab. Est. cat., xi, 1970), p.446-545.
Summary Note
The plates depict: A. continents, countries, life, death; B-D. deities; E. abstractions; F. arts and sciences; G-K. abstractions; L. months; M. seasons, times; N. senses, emotions; O-S. abstractions.
Provenance
Recordedd n RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
19th-century grey cloth-covered boards; 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier browm morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with ten others.
Subject
Iconography - Symbols - Applied decoration - Ornaments - France - History - 18th century
Drawings - France - 18th century
Manuals - Pattern drawings - France - 18th century - Rococo
Pictorial works - France - 18th century
Contributors
Gabriel Huquier, draughtsman, engraver, intaglio printer, publisher