Recueil des plans profils et eleuations des [sic] plusieurs palais chasteaux eglises sepultures grotes et hostels, bâtis dans Paris, et aux enuirons, auec beaucoup de magnificence, par les meilleu[rs] architectes du royaume, desseignez, mesurés, et grauez par Jean Marot architecte parisien.
Jean Marot the elder (Paris 1619 - Paris 1679)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1660
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3223158
Summary
Bibliographic description
[135] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 4to. Running number: 7572. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "134. Planches" [i.e. plate count written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spine: 'Oeuvr de Marot'. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Jean Marot the elder (Paris 1619 - Paris 1679), artist and engraver Daniel Marot (1661-1752)