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Description des festes données par la ville de Paris : à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise- Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Admiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuviéme & trentiéme août mil sept cent trente-neuf.: PB 60-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris : à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise- Elisabeth de France, & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Admiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuviéme & trentiéme août mil sept cent trente-neuf.

Maker(s)

Engraver: Blondel, Jacques-François
Printer: Mercier, Pierre-Gilles le
Binder (person): Pasdeloup, Antoine-Michel

Categories

Description

[2],22p, [5] leaves of plates,[8] folded leaves of plates : ill ; 64cm (fol.).

Language: French
Printed text, with illustrations: 13 plates comprising: 6 folded and 5 single plates, 2 folded plans. Title vignette engraved by P. Soubeyran after Edm. Bouchardon; plates engraved by J.F. Blondel after Blondel, Gabriel, Salley, Rousset and Servandoni; vignette on p. [1] of text, by Jac. Rigaud.
Running title: Festes à l'occasion du mariage de Madame.
Pp.17-22 are "Description du bal donné à l'Hôtel de Ville, la nuit du trente au trente-un août mil sept cent trente neuf."
Old classmarks: 2.K.2; 560.
Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1803.
Binding, by Padeloup, of red morocco, gilt. Sides within a narrow border of tools; fleur-de-lis in each corner and arms of the city of Paris in center. Doublé with marbled paper within a narrow border of tools. Back tooled and lettered. Edges gilt. Similar to "Féte publique ... à l'occasion du mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin ... 1747".
Binding: mottled calf with g.t. ornaments at angles, g. rolled border, boards stamped with g.t. arms of Paris; spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering on red spine label; marbled e.p.; a.e.g.

Notes

History note: Ownership inscription: "Fitzwilliam 1803".

Place(s) associated

  • Paris

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1740 : A Paris : De l'imprimerie de P.G. Le Mercier, imprimeur-libraire ordinaire de la ville, rue Saint Jacques, au Livre d'Or, 1740.

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 60-2020
Primary reference Number: 300311
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 13 July 2021 Updated: Tuesday 13 July 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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