Sixieme Livre Contenant De Feux Ou Grilles D'Atres De Cheminée Inventés par G.M. Oppenort Per. Architecte et Directeur général des Batiments et jardins de S.A.R. Mgr. Le Duc D'Orleans Regent
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2683
Imprint
A Paris: chez Huquier, rue St Jacque au coin de la rue des Mathurins A.P.D.R., [between 1738 and 1749?]
Physical Description
Plates F1-6 (incl t.-pl.); 436 mm. (Folio).
Responsibility Note
All plates except the title-plate are signed as designed by Oppenort and engraved by Aveline junior.
Each plate carries Huquier's imprint.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, I (1993), 126.
M. Myers, French architecture and ornament of the eighteenth century (1991).
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 speckled 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.
Andirons - Firesets - Metal-work - France - History - 18th century - Rococo
Designs - Pattern books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century