Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734.. Dessiné et gravé, sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, Marquis de Sousmons seigneur de St. Germain sur Eaulne ... Achevé de graver en 1739 ... /. Levé et dessiné par Louis Bretez. Gravé par Claude Lucas. Et écrit par Aubin.
Louis Bretez (d.1736)
Category
Maps
Date
1739
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3103246
Summary
Bibliographic description
20 leaves of plates :. maps;. fol. Accession no.3172. In manuscript on verso of upper free endpaper "No. 3530". Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. 1897 Waddesdon catalouge, p. 67. Binding: French red morocco gilt, by Antoine-Michel Padeloup. Arms of the City of Paris on both covers, a fleur-de-lis in each corner of both covers and in the centre and corners of nine panels of the spine. Gilt edges. Marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
Louis Bretez (d.1736) Claude Lucas (1685–1765) Michel-Etienne Turgot (1690-1751)