Album of Prints from "Vues pittoresque des principaux édifices de Paris" (volume I)

1787

Le Campion family and others

Associated Names
Le Campion family

Publisher, French, active 18th century

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 80 etchings with wash manner, mostly in printed in color, on laid paper (including title page)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 27.5 × 22 × 3 cm (10 13/16 × 8 11/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.1843-1922

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Associated Artworks

Hôtel Thélusson

Laurent Guyot

1789

Interior of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève

fils Le Campion

1789

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, Natl. Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 69, as Hôtel Thélusson AND Interior of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève from Vues pittoresques des principaux édifices...

Bibliography

1912

  • Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 515

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 69.

Inscriptions

in gold tooled letters on spine of black Morocco leather binding: VUES / PITTORESQUES / DES PRINCIPAUX / ÉDIFICES / DE / PARIS / TOME I / 1792
on title page, in plate, at center: VUES / PITTORESQUES / DES PRINCIPAUX / ÉDIFICES / DE / PARIS; in plate, below image: à Paris chez Lamy Libraire Quai des Augustins 1792

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