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Description generale de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides : établi par Louis le Grand dans la plaine de Grenelle prés Paris ; avec les plans, profils & elevations de ses faces, coupes & appartemens.: PB 40-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Description generale de l'Hostel Royal des Invalides : établi par Louis le Grand dans la plaine de Grenelle prés Paris ; avec les plans, profils & elevations de ses faces, coupes & appartemens.

Maker(s)

Supposed author.: Le Jeune de Boulencourt,
Supposed author.: La Porte, Mathieu de
Printer: Martin, Gabriel (printer)
Engraver: Marot, Jean I
Engraver: Bonnart, Robert

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Description

Dedicatory epistle signed L.J.D.B., [i.e. Le Jeune de Boullencourt] who appears in the Privilege as the author
Also attributed to De La Porte. Cf. British Museum Catalog.
Colophon: A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Gabriel Martin ...M. DC. LXXXIII.
Plates bound separately.
Text with: Tapisseries du Roy ... Paris: Mabre-Cramoisy, 1679.
Engraved title vignette, headpieces and initials; by Robert Bonnart
Plates engraved by Jean Marot and others.
Constitutes the 12th volume of "Cabinet du roi" as described in "Catalogue des volumes d'estampes dont les planches sont à la Bibliothèque du Roy.- A Paris, de l'imprimerie royale, 1743"
Title from: Catalogue des volumes d'estampes ... 1743.
Binder's titles: Descript. [text]; Les Inval. [plates].
Old classmarks: 3.K.11; 27.M.14.
Ownership inscription: "Fitzwilliam 1792".
Binding: mottled calf, border (triple g. fillet), g.t. arms of Louis XIV; spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e.g.

Architecture France Paris.

Measurements and weight

1 v in 2 (([8],51p), [13] leaves of plates, [10] folded leaves of plates) : ill ; 43-64cm (fol).

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

Production date: AD 1683 : Paris :chez l'auteur,1683.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 40-2020
Primary reference Number: 278016
ALMA control 001: 99204583803606
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 15 December 2020 Updated: Tuesday 26 January 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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