Les Douze Mois De L'Année

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2425

Imprint

A. Paris: chés Huquier rue des Mathurins au coin de celle de Sorbonne. A.P.D.R., [between 1749 and 1761?]

Physical Description

12 pl.; 215×310 mm.

Responsibility Note

All plates are signed as drawn by P. Molyn and engraved by Wairotter; pl. 2-12 are also signed as printed by Huquier.

The first and last plates carry Huquier's publisher's imprint.

Summary Note

The first plate, 'Janvier', also carries the name of the set, 'Les Douze Mois De L'Année'.

Provenance

Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).

Binding Note

Bound with 12 others.

Subject

Months - Seasons - Landscapes (environments) - Europe - France - History - 18th century
Drawings - Landscapes (representations) - France - 18th century
Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Pieter Molyn, draughtsman
Franz Edmund Weirotter, engraver
Gabriel Huquier, intaglio printer, publisher