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001 $ 06/6060
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220726173239.8
041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
245 0 0 $a Recueil De Diverses Academies Designées par le plus Célèbres Peintres de l'Academie Roiale, et Gravée Par N. Guerard le fils.
260 # # $a Se vend a Paris $b Chez le dit Guerard Ruë Saint Iacques a la Reine du Clergé proche Saint Yve. C.P.R. $c [ca. 1719]
300 # # $a [12] pl. (incl. t.pl.); $c 387 mm.
508 # # $a The first plate (title plate) is signed as designed by F. Verdier. The rest are signed as designed by F. Verdier, Houasse, Hallé, L. Boulogne le Jeune, Ant. Coypel or I. Iouvenet, and as engraved by N. Guerard le Fils C.P.R.
510 0 # $a On 'Academy' figures see A.L. Clark, Drawing on tradition: the lost legacy of academic figure studies [exhibition catalogue] (1995); M. Roland-Michel, Le dessin français au XVIII siècle (1987), p.47-76; J.H. Rubin, Eighteenth-century French life drawing (1977).
520 2 # $a No publication-date is given; but N. Guérard is known to have conducted his business at Paris in rue Saint-Jacques 'à la Reine du clergé', proche Saint-Yves, from 1715 to 1719.

All plates show male nudes, possibly representing pagan deities.
563 # # $a 18th-century half mottled calf, brown watered-cloth-covered boards; brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Academy Figures By Verdier', spine lettered 'R.A.'; spine repaired in 20th century. Bound with one other.
600 1 4 $a Verdier
653 # # $a Mythology, Greek - Iconography
653 # # $a Nudes - Men (male humans)
653 # # $a Drawings - France - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pattern books - France - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - France - 18th century
700 1 # $a Verdier $e source artist $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Guerard $e engraver $e publisher $e printseller
700 1 # $a Houasse $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Coypel $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Jouvenet $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Halle $e draughtsman