Andrea Palladio's Architecture, in Four Books Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders & ye most Necessary Observations relating to all kinds of Building. as also The Different Constructions of Public and Private Houses, High-ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, & Temples, n.th their Plans, Sections, & Elevations. The Whole Containing 226 Folio Copper-Plates Carefully Revied and Redelineated By Edw.d Hoppus...and Embellish'd n.th a Large Variety of Chimney Pieces Collected from the Works of Inigo Jones & others.
published 1736
Artist, British, active 18th century
Author, Italian, 1508 - 1580
Artwork overview
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Medium
4 parts bound in 1 vol: ill: 209 engravings (13 folding, rest full-page, versos blank), by Benjamin Cole after Hoppus
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 38.7 x 23.5 cm (15 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 39.8 x 25.9 x 2.3 cm (15 11/16 x 10 3/16 x 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.49
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1998
Middleton et al. 1998, no. 51.