Voyage pittoresque ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.
Jean Claude Richard de Saint Non (1727-1791)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3077529
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plates (some folded, some col.). ill.., maps, ports.. (engravings). fol. Accession no. 5445.1-5. Four vols. in five. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.97. Binding: late eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; ribbon border entwined with fronds around covers, and ornament of painter's instruments in the centre of each panel on the spine, green lettering- and numeration-pieces, the latter having a red oval onlay ; blue silk headbands and markers, gilt edges, wide turn-in roll, stone-marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Jean Claude Richard de Saint Non (1727-1791), author Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794) Domnique Vivant, Baron Denon (1747-1825) Déodat de Dolomieu (1750-1801) Sir William Hamilton KB (1730-1803)