MARC Record view

001 $ 05/4475
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20191015090149.5
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 0 0 $a Six Academy Figures Drawn from the Life by F. Verdier, Painter in Ordinary to Lewis the Fourteenth.
246 3 # $a Recueil de plusieurs figures d'Académie, dessinées d'après nature par François Verdier
260 # # $a [London:] $b Sold by Sl. Lyne at ye Globe in Newgate Street Who Sells all other sorts of Books to Draw after. Price 6 Pence $c [ca. 1748?]
300 # # $a 6 pl.; $c 313 mm.
508 # # $a All plates appear to have had signatures, now erased.
510 0 # $a J.H. Rubin, Eighteenth-century French life drawing (1977).
520 2 # $a No publication-date is carried by the plates. But perhaps the present work derives from the Recueil de plusieurs figures d'Académie, dessinées d'après nature par François Verdier, peintre ordinaire du Roy, engraved and published in 1747 by Nicolas de Poilly the younger.

All but one of the plates are captioned, and show: 1.[uncaptioned: a kneeling, blind [?] man, tied to a wall] [this plate also carries the title of the set as a whole]; 2. A River or Water God; 3. Hercules; 4. Jupiter; 5. Pan; 6. Atlas.

François Verdier worked chiefly under Charles Le Brun, painting and designing both Christian and classical subjects.
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Boucher & Verdier. Costumes & Acady. Figures' and 'R.A.' Bound with two others.
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 - Great Britain - London - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Verdier $e source artist $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Poilly
700 1 # $a Lyne $e bookseller $e publisher