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

1787

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

    1942.9.1843-1922

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Associated Artworks

Interior of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève

fils Le Campion

1789

Hôtel Thélusson

Laurent Guyot

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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