[Collection of architectural plates of the Louvre, Collège des Quatre-Nations, Château de Clagny and Versailles]
Nicolas François Blondel (1618-1686)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1683
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3219790
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24] leaves of plates : all ill., plans ; fol. Running number: 7320. Some insect damage at foot of plates 1-2, 4, 7 and 24. Water-staining at head and foot on some plates. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "24. Planche" [i.e. count of the plates, written in the hand of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on six raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title ' Nouve bastim' [i.e. 'Nouveau bastimens'] on brown calf label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Nicolas François Blondel (1618-1686) , artist and engraver Jean-Michel Chevotet (1698-1772), architect Hardouin, Michel, engraver (printmaker) Jules Hardouin Mansart (Paris 1646 - Marly 1708) , architect Jean Mariette (1660-1742), printer and publisher Jean Marot the elder (Paris 1619 - Paris 1679), architect Jean Marot the elder (Paris 1619 - Paris 1679), designer