Recueil d'estampes d'apres les plus celebres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde :. ... contenant cinquante pieces avec une description de chaque tableau en françois et en italien. Exemplaire royal.
Category
Books
Date
1753 - 1757
Materials
Place of origin
Dresden
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3089341
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. :. ill.,. fol. Former acc. no. 7307. Unclear whether both volumes are present. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.29. Alexander, tenth duke of Hamilton, sold by the twelfth duke at Sotheby's in 1884. Binding: mid eighteenth-century Dresden red morocco gilt, arms of Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, on upper and lower covers of both volumes. Rolled on outer border, flower tool and floral cornucopia tooled on inner border, green silk linings, gilt edges.