EditorialSir Jean Rouill?, Count of Meslay. G?rard Edelinck (French, born Flanders, 1640-1707); after Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678). Date: 1702. Dimensions: 352 ? 257 mm (image); 357 ? 261 mm (plate); 365 ? 269 mm (sheet). Engraving on ivory laid paper. O...
EditorialSir Jean Rouill?, Count of Meslay. G?rard Edelinck (French, born Flanders, 1640-1707); after Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678). Date: 1702. Dimensions: 352 ? 257 mm (image); 357 ? 261 mm (plate); 365 ? 269 mm (sheet). Engraving on ivory laid paper. O...
EditorialAqueduct in Ruins, Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 54 1/8 in. (81.6 x 137.5 cm), Paintings, Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733?1808 Paris), Almost all of the paintings from the H?tel Rouill? de l'?tang apparently include a water feature, in this case a basin ov...
EditorialBridge over a Cascade, Oil on canvas, 32 x 54 1/8 in. (81.3 x 137.5 cm), Paintings, Hubert Robert (French, Paris 1733?1808 Paris), This overdoor is one of a pair; its pendant, of almost exactly the same dimensions, is Aqueduct in Ruins. The two were pe...
EditorialAnemone-flowered sweetbriar rose, Rosa rubiginosa variety, Rosier Rouill? ? fleurs d?an?mone. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Pierre Joseph Redoute's "Les Roses," Paris, 1828. Redoute was botanical artist to Marie Antoinette and Empress...