The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Directory: Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Household Furniture, in the Most Fashionable Taste....To which is prefixed, A Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture;...The Whole comprehended in Two Hundred Copper-Plates, neatly engraved...The Third Edition
published 1762
Artist, British, active 1754 - c. 1780
Artist, British, active 1760s
Artist, British, 1730 - 1807
Artist, German, 1715 - 1785 or after
Artist, British, active 1760s
Artist, British, died 1771
Artist, British, 1711 - 1774
Artist, British, died 1812
Artist, British, active 1750/1800
Author, British, 1718 - 1779
Artwork overview
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Medium
1 vol: ill: engraved dedication by Matthew Darly plus 200 etching and engravings (all full-page, versos blank) after Chippendale by Darly (80), Johann Sebastian Müller (25), Isaac Taylor (21), Tobias Miller (16), William Foster (16), Butler Clowes(11), James Hulett (4), Cornelius H. Hemmerich (2), Thomas Morris (1), Edward Rooker (1)
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Credit Line
Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, David K.E. Bruce Fund
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Dimensions
page size: 44.5 x 28.8 cm (17 1/2 x 11 5/16 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 46 x 30.4 x 5.6 cm (18 1/8 x 11 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.471
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1998
Middleton et al. 1998, no. 15.
Watermarks
MICHALLET on first free end-paper