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Jean-Ignace-Isidore Grandville

Artist, French, 1803 - 1847

Taxile Delord

Author, French, 1815 - 1877

H. Fournier

Publisher, French, 19th century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 203 wood engravings, including 1 cover illustration (spread over upper and lower covers and spine), 2 frontispieces, 139 wood-engraved vignettes, 23 full-page vignettes and 38 hand-colored wood engravings, of which 16 are in duplicate)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.7 x 18.8 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
    book: 27.8 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm (10 15/16 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.110.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ursus Rare Books, Ltd., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus Von Hoffmann, Washington, DC, 2004; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; and Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982, 2: 196.

2003

  • Laird, Michael. Ursus Rare Books. New York, 2003: no. 44.

Inscriptions

inside back cover upper right in graphite by later hand: BORX_W / FDF / 116388; inside back cover center: Grandville. / with 2 frontis + 36 plates, / of which 16 are in duplicate. / C&P ML(?)

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