Atlas des Environs de Paris
1740
Artist, French, 1689 - 1757
Artist
Jean Delagrive
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with letterpress text title page and etching and engravings on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 65 × 51 × 3 cm (25 9/16 × 20 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
sheet (each etching and engraving): 64 × 94 cm (25 3/16 × 37 in.) -
Accession Number
2024.82.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury (1776-1854), Paris [not in Lugt]. (Alexandre Maps & Books, Toronto); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2024.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on title page, in letterpress text: ATLAS / DES ENVIRONS DE PARIS / par Mr. l'abbé DE LA GRIVE / Géographe de la ville de Paris. / de la Société Royale de Londres. / MDCCXL. [title page is composed of two sheets pasted together with the letterpress title at the top and Delagrive's small map of Paris below, the engraved inscription of which reads: Reduction des neuf feuilles des ENVIRONS DE PARIS de M. l'Abbé Delagrive. Par l'auteur 1754]; in gold-tooled letters on leather spine of the volume: ENVIRONS / DE / PARIS / DELAGRIVE
Markings
on title page, in blue ink: BIBLIOTHÉQUE / DE M. HÉRICART DE THURY / CONSEILLER D'ÉTAT [not in Lugt; Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury]
Watermarks
to be identified [from Auvergne?]