EditorialIron Gates of the Mint, Paris, Jacques-Denis Antoine, French, 17731801, Pen and black ink, brush and blue, brown, gray wash, with black chalk indications on paper with mounted overleaf, The gate set in a rusticated wall. The gate itself consists of two...
EditorialDesign for Holy Water Spouts, from 'Inventions Pour Faire des Plaques', Jean Le Pautre, French, 16181682, Etching on paper; Red crayon on paper, Verso: Horizontally, top left. Bottom center: a chiffre containing ABCGN and probably other letters., Europ...
EditorialDesign for a Square Ceiling, with Alternative Suggestions, Jean Le Pautre, French, 16181682, Etching on paper, One half is shown. View of a dome in the center. Pairs of female half-figures holding crowns are obliquely shown in the corners. The crowned ...
EditorialTitle Page of the Second Volume of Gessner's Collected Literary Works, Salomon Gessner, Swiss, 1730 - 1788, Etching on paper, Tablet decorated with a garland and a trophy of pastoral emblems. First two lines of the text: 'SALOMON GESSNERS/SCHRIFFTEN'. ...
EditorialPlatter decorated with cupids and roses painted by Asselin. Mark of Madame du Barry, last mistress to Louis XV. Plateau au chiffre de Mme. du Barry, peinture d'Asselin. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Past...
EditorialLe Chiffre d'Amour, 18th century, Etching and engraving; first state of three (Portalis), Sheet: 12 7/8 ? 10 1/16 in. (32.7 ? 25.5 cm), Prints, Nicolas de Launay (French, Paris, 1739?1792), After Jean Honor? Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732?1806 Paris).
EditorialPlatter decorated with cupids and roses painted by Asselin. Mark of Madame du Barry, last mistress to Louis XV. Plateau au chiffre de Mme. du Barry, peinture d'Asselin. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Past...