Livre des divers Animaux pour dessus de Portes par les meilleurs Maitres
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2418
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R., [between 1749 and 1761?]
Physical Description
12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 275×405 mm.
Responsibility Note
Most plates (2-9) are signed as drawn by J.B. Oudri and engraved by Duncker. Pl. 1 is signed as drawn by Meissonier, engraved by Duncker; pl. 10 as drawn by Meissonier, engraved by Huquier; pl.s 11, 12 as drawn by Van Bloemen, engraved by La Rüe.
All are signed as printed by Huquier. The first and last plates carry his publisher's imprint.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
18th-century grey cloth-covered boards; 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with Huquier's Iconologie [1768] and nine others.