Recueil de plus de Six Cents Vases nouvellement mis au jour Composeés et Gravés en partie par Huquier Collection tres utille a differets Artistes.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2409
Variant Title
Livre de vases
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier rue des Mathurins pres celle de Sorboñe. C.P.R., [1767]
Physical Description
[54] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 269×400 mm.
General Note
Each leaf carries one plate, but each plate shows two groups of vases and is numbered '1, 2'. The plates are arranged in nine groups lettered A-I; the first is captioned 'Premiere partie', the second to eighth are captioned 'Deuxieme (-Neuvieme) Livre de Vases'.
Responsibility Note
Each plate is signed as printed by Huquier ('Huquier excudit'). The first and last plates in each lettered group carry his publisher's imprint.
References
Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, Cab. Est. cat., xi, 1970), p. 446-545.
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
Vases
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century - Rococo
Pictorial works - France - 18th century
Contributors
Gabriel Huquier, draughtsman, engraver, intaglio printer, publisher