Recueil de Figures Antiques gravées d'apres les desseins de G. M. Oppenort

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2416

Imprint

A Paris: chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R., [between 1749 and 1761?]

Physical Description

6 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 275×405 mm.

Responsibility Note

All plates are signed as engraved by Duncker and printed by Huquier ('Duncker sculp. Huquier ex.').

References

Y. Bruand, M. Hébert and Y. Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du dix-huitième siècle (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Cab. Est. cat., xi, 1970), p. 446-545.

Provenance

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

Binding Note

19th-century grey cloth-covered boards; 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with Huquier's Iconologies [1768] and nine others.

Subject

Sculpture, Greek - Sculpture, Roman - Statues - History
Drawings, French - France - 18th century
Drawing
Manuals - Pattern drawings - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Giles Marie Oppenord, source artist, draughtsman
Gabriel Huquier, intaglio printer, publisher
Balthasar Anton Duncker, engraver