[Jugs: designs.]

Raymond de Lafage

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/1029

Author

Imprint

[S.l.:: s.n.,, [17--?]

Physical Description

[3] pl.; 435 mm. (Folio).

Responsibility Note

The first two plates are signed as designed by La Fage and engraved by 'C'. The third is signed by 'CAF' or 'CNF' [?].

Summary Note

The first two plates show rough sketches for jugs or vases; the third, a more finished design for a jug.

Provenance

Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue ...').

Copy Note

Each plate is pasted in.

Binding Note

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

Subject

Jugs - Vases - France - History - 17th century - Baroque
Designs - Pattern books - France - 17th century
Pictorial works - 17th century