Recueil de differentes Etudes d'Animaux Gravées d'apres les Desseins des plus habilles maitres par Duncker et terminés au burin par Huquier.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2419

Imprint

AParis: chez Huquier Rue des Mathurins au coin de la Rue Sorbone., [between 1749 and 1761?]

Physical Description

12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 273×405 mm.

Responsibility Note

The title-plate is unsigned. Plates 2, 3 are signed as drawn by Gillot; plates 4-8 as drawn by Sneyder(s); plate 9 as drawn by Vandermeule; plates 10, 11 as drawn by J.B. Oudry; and plate 12 as painted by Berchem.

Each carries the imprint of Huquier as publisher (first and last plates) or printer (all other plates).

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Binding Note

19th-century grey cloth-covered boards. 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label, lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with Huquier's Iconologies [1768] and nine others.

Subject

Animals - Birds - Europe - History
Drawings - Europe - 17th century - 18th century
Manuals - Pattern drawings - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Gabriel Huquier, engraver, intaglio printer, publisher
Claude Gillot, draughtsman
Frans Snyders, draughtsman
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, draughtsman
Nicolaes Berchem, source artist
Adam Frans van der Meulen, draughtsman