Claude Perrault

French, 1613 - 1688

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A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, Viz. Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Wherein The Proportions and Character of the Members Of their several Pedestals, Columns and Entablatures, Are distinctly consider'd, with respect to the Practice of the Antients and Moderns. Also A most Natural, Easie and Practicable Method laid down, for determining the most minute Part in all the Orders, without a Fraction....Engraven on Six Folio Plates of the Several Orders, adorn'd with Twenty-Four Borders, as many Initial Letters, and a like number of Tail-Pieces, by John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault, of the Royal Academy of Paris....Made English by John James of Greenwich.

John Sturt, Claude Perrault · published 1708 · 1 vol: ill: etched and engraved title page, plus 6 etching and engravings (full-page, verso blank), unsigned [by John Sturt], head- and tail-pieces ·  Accession ID  1983.49.65

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Ordonnance des Cinq Especes De Colonnes Selon Methode Des Anciens

Louis de Chatillon, Pierre Lepautre, Sébastien Le Clerc I, Claude Perrault · published 1688 · 2 works bound in 1 vol: 2nd part: ill: 6 engravings (full-page, versos blank), 3 by Pierre Le Pautre, 2 by Louis de Chatillon, 1 by Sebastien Le Clerc ·  Accession ID  1983.49.102.b

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Ordonnance Des Cinq Especes De Colonnes Selon La Methode Des Anciens

Louis de Chatillon, Pierre Lepautre, Sébastien Le Clerc I, Claude Perrault · published 1683 · 1 vol: ill: 6 engravings (full-page, versos blank), 3 by Pierre Le Pautre, 2 by Louis de Chatillon, 1 by Sebastien Le Clerc ·  Accession ID  1985.61.2612

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Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve, Corrigez et Traduits Nouvellement en François avec des Notes & des Figures

Jacques Grignon, Georges Tournier, Gerard Edelinck, Pieter van der Banck, Gérard Scotin I, Nicolas Pitau I, Sébastien Le Clerc I, Etienne Gantrel, Jean Patigny, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Claude Perrault · published 1673 · 1 vol: ill: engraved title page by Gérard Scotin I after Sébastien le Clerc, woodcut illustrations within text, and 65 etching and engravings within text (most full-page), artists include: Georges Tournier (12), Gerard Edelinck (4), Pieter Van derBanck (3), Le Clerc (3), Jacques Grignon (3), Etienne Gantrel (2), Nicolas Pitau (2), Scotin (2), Jean Patigny (1), rest unsigned ·  Accession ID  1983.49.142

Bibliography

1993

  • Wiebenson/Baines 1993, p.398.