Atlas des Environs de Paris

1740

Jean Delagrive

Artist, French, 1689 - 1757

Various Artists

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress text title page and etching and engravings on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David H. McDonnell

  • 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

    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?]

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