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001 $ 04/2897
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
245 0 0 $a Plusieurs Grouppes De Figures Du Grand Escalier De Versailles, Dit L'Escalier Des Ambassadeurs. $b Presentez A Monseigneur Julles Hardouin Mansart Conseiller du Roy en tous ses Conseils, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel, Comte de Sagonne, Sur-Intendant et Ordonnateur general des Bâtimens, Arts et Manufactures de sa Majesté.
260 # # $a [S.l.: $b s.n., $c [after 1678.]
300 # # $a [12] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); $c 380×520 mm. (Oblong.)
508 # # $a No plate is signed.
510 0 # $a Charles Le Brun: le décor de l'Escalier des Ambassadeurs [exhibition catalogue] (Versailles 1990).
520 2 # $a There is no text apart from the engraved title-plate.

The other eleven plates reproduce outline drawings of some of the decorations of the Grand Escalier at Versailles, which Charles Lebrun designed and executed between 1674 and 1678. One shows Louis XIV crossing the Rhine; the rest show decorative details incorporating allegoric figures.
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
562 # # $a All plates are pasted in.
563 # # $a 19th-century quarter morocco, brown cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers incorporating a square of 18th-century mottled calf binding bearing gilt-stamped arms of France in armorial circlets; gilt-decorated spine, lettered 'R.A. 1672-75', red morocco spine-label lettered 'Vues De Versailles'. Bound with 75 plates showing views of Versailles.
600 1 4 $a Lebrun, Charles
653 # # $a Staircases - Ceilings - Interior decoration - Paintings, European - Paintings, French - Palaces - France - Versailles - Château de Versailles - History - 17th century - Baroque
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - France - 17th century
655 # 0 $a Armorial bindings - France - 18th century
700 1 # $a Mansart, Jules Hardouin $e dedicatee
852 8 # $d 1802: 13-0-17.