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003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
245 0 0 $a Nouveaux Tableaux D'Ornements et Rocailles Par J. de la Joüe Peintre du Roy.
260 # # $a A Paris $b chez Huquier rue St Jacque au coin de la rue des Mathurins AP.D.R. $c [between 1738 and 1749?]
300 # # $a 9 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); $c 436 mm. (Folio).
500 # # $a In some copies the plate here numbered '7' is numbered '2' (so described in M. Roland Michel).
508 # # $a All plates except pl. 1 are signed as designed by J. de la Joüe; all are signed as engraved and/or printed by Huquier.
510 0 # $a M. Roland Michel, Lajoüe et l'art rocaille (1984), no. G.150-8.
520 2 # $a The plates show:

1. (t.pl.) a fountain, with figures of the three Graces, framed by fountains and trellis-work (the only symmetrical composition in this series);

2. a curved wall with fountains (left), a fountain with putti supporting a globe (right);

3. a fountain (left), pears heaped in a dish (centre), a buffet (right);

4. a salamander perched before an incense-burner (left), fountain and trellis (right);

5. a fountain, with vase and steps (left), a heap of pears &c. (right);

6. a vase upon a socle, with fruit and a small fountain;

7. a mermaid with trident before a trellis (left), smoking vessels, with garden steps (right);

8. vases on a socle, with trellis;

9. fountains and scroll-work (left), leafage and scrollwork (right).

All the plates are in a rococo, asymmetric style - accentuated by the vertical central division of several of the plates.

This book was followed by a Second Livre De Tableaux Et Rocailles par J. De La Joue Peintre du Roy (n.d.), which contains a further nine plates, numbered 10-18.
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier ...').
562 # # $a All plates are pasted in.
563 # # $a 18th-century speckled calf; rebound in 1996, retaining earlier red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Oeuvres De Boucher & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés par François Boucher' and 20 others.
600 1 4 $a Lajoue
653 # # $a Ornaments - Rocaille - France - History - 18th century - Rococo
655 # 4 $a Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - France - 18th century
700 1 # $a Lajoue, Jacques de $e source artist $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Huquier, Gabriel $e engraver $e intaglio printer $e publisher
852 8 # $d 1802: N-0-04; 1821: X-0-03.