[Paris],: (Nicolas de Poilly),, [between 1662 and 1696?].
Physical Description
[20] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 292×390 mm.
Responsibility Note
Plates [2, 4, 18, 20] are signed as drawn and engraved by A. Perelle; the rest are unsigned.
All except the title-plate carry the printer's imprint of N. de Poilly (some as at the sign of the 'Belle Image', which he began to use some time after 1662). Several plates show signs of erasures of earlier signatures.
References
N. Avel, 'Les Pérelle: graveurs de paysages du XVIIeme siecle', in Bull. Soc. Hist. A. Fr. (1973), p.143-53; N. Avel, Les Pérelle, paysages, catalogue [dissertation, Univ. Paris IV] (1971).
Provenance
Recorded in RA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
The plates have been numbered by hand 1-20. The last leaf of this volume carries a handwritten list of all the plates in this work (1-20) and in the work with which it is bound (21-119), with descriptions in English.
Binding Note
18th-century calf, upper and lower covers decorated with oblong panels; rebacked in 19th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Veues Des Maisons Royale De Paris', spine lettered 'R.A.' Bound with Veues des Maisons Royales de France (n.d.).
Subject
Cities - Architecture, French - Palaces - France - Paris - History - 17th century
Views - France - 17th century
Pictorial works - France - 17th century