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Septieme Livre Contenant Des Fontaines Pour la Décoration des Jards. et Places publiques. Inventés par G. M. Oppenort Et Gravés par Huquier

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2682

Imprint

A Paris: chez Huquier rue St Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, Avec privil. du Roi, [between 1738 and 1749?]

Physical Description

6 pl. (lettered G1-6) (incl. t.-pl.); 436 mm. (Folio).

Responsibility Note

All plates except the first are signed as designed by Oppenort and printed by Huquier 'C.P.R.'

References

National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, I (1993), 126.

M. Myers, French architecture and ornament of the eighteenth century (1991).

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier ...').

Copy Note

All plates are pasted in.

Binding Note

18th-cerntury speckled calf; rebacked in 1996, red and black morocco spine-labels lettred 'Oeuvres De Bouche & De La Joue Tom. II'. Bound with 'Livre de Cartouches Inventés Par François Boucher' and 20 others.

Name as Subject

Subject

Fountains - France - History - 18th century - Rococo
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Giles Marie Oppenord, draughtsman
Gabriel Huquier, intaglio printer, publisher