Nouveau Livre De Fontaines Inventée par le Sieur Oppenor
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2691
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier vis a vis le grand Chatelet., [between 1729 and 1737]
Physical Description
[12] pl. (incl. t.-pl.) on six sheets; 438 mm. (Folio).
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as designed by Oppenor and engraved and printed by Huquier.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, I (1993), 126.
M. Myers, French architecture and ornament of the eighteenth century (1991).
Summary Note
No date of publication is given, but Huquier's address was 'vis a vis le grand Chatelet' from about 1729 to 1737.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802 (as 'Ornemens pour les Artistes, par Boucher, la Joue, Huquier, Oppenort ...').
Copy Note
All plates are pasted in.
Binding Note
18th-century sprinkled 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.