Recueil de diverses Figres. Étrangeres Inventées Par F. Boucher Ptre. du Roy Et Gravées Par F. Ravenet
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/4470
Imprint
AParis: chez Huquier Avec priv. du Roi., [17--?]
Physical Description
12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 309 mm.
Responsibility Note
The plates are signed as designed by F. Boucher and engraved by F. Ravenet.
Each carries the publisher's imprint, 'AParis chez Huquier Avec priv. du Roi.'
References
R. Colas, Bibliographie Générale Du Costume (1933), no. 404, col. 142.
Summary Note
No publication-date is given: R. Colas, in his Bibliographie génrale du costume, suggests 'vers 1740'.
The plates are captioned, and show: 1. Afriquaine en deshabillé (this plate also carries the title of the set as a whole); 2. Femme de Naples; 3. Dona Mitilena; 4. Ancienne Mode Françoise; 5. Dame de Constantinople; 6. Fille de St. Jean de Patmos, Isle de l'Archipel; 7. Contadina; 8. Femme du Levant; 9. Femme de Boulogne; 10. Fille de Chio Isle de l'Archipel; 11. Contadina; 12. Femme de Macédoine.
Binding Note
19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered ' Boucher & Verdier. Costumes & Acady. Figures' and 'R.A.' Bound with two others.
Costume - Dress - Women - Mediterranean Region - Europe - Italy - Greece - France - Middle East - Turkey - North Africa - History - 18th century
Drawings - France - 18th century - Rococo
Pictorial works - France - 18th century