Livre de Cartouches Inventés par François Boucher Peintre du Roy.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2677
Imprint
A Paris: Chez Huquier rue St. Jacques au coin de la rue des Mathurins Avec Privil. du Roi., [between 1738 and 1749?]
Physical Description
12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.) (4 fold.); 438 mm. (Folio).
Responsibility Note
All plates except the title plate are signed as designed by F. Boucher.
Each carries the publisher's imprint of Huquier.
References
Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Paris, Bib. N. Cab. Est. cat., XI) (Paris, 1970), p. 446-545.
Summary Note
No publication-date is given - but the address on the title-plate was that of Huquier between 1738 and 1749.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue ...').
Copy Note
Each plate is pasted in.
Binding Note
18th-century sprinkled calf; rebacked in 1996, retaining earlier red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'OEuvres De Bouche & De La Iou Tom II', gilt-decorated spine. Bound with 21 others.