Recueil De Petites Figures, gravées d'apres les desseins des plus habilles Maitres, propres à differents usages.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2412

Imprint

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

Physical Description

[10] leaves carrying 12 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 275×405 mm.

Responsibility Note

The title-plate is signed, 'Duncker sculp. Terminé par Huquier'. Plates 2 and 3 are signed as engraved by Freudebergh and printed by Huquier. Plates 4-12 are signed as engraved by Duncker and printed by Huquier.

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

The names of the 'plus habilles Maitres' are not specified.

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

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 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

Drawings
Manuals - Pattern drawings - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Gabriel Huquier, engraver, intaglio printer, publisher
Balthasar Anton Duncker, engraver
Sigmund Freudenberger, engraver