Details

Subject(s)

• France—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Architecture—France [Browse]

Related name

• Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691 [Browse]
• Merlen, Jacobus van [Browse]
• Perelle, Adam, 1638-1695 [Browse]
• Perelle, Nicolas, 1631-1695 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Albums—France—17th century [Browse]
• Prints—France—17th century [Browse]
• Etchings—France—17th century [Browse]
• Engravings—France—17th century [Browse]
• Topographic views—France—17th century [Browse]
• Topographic views—Italy—17th century [Browse]

Notes

• Title from spine.
• A nonce collection made up of plates from the so-called Perelle album. Some plates are before letters with captions written in ink by a contemporary hand. Some plates as issued with lettering. The leaves a numbered in contemporary ink 3 to 285. Some leaves are blank.
• Plates by Gabriel, Adam and Nicolas Perelle, as well as Israël Silvestre, and Jacobus van Merlen.
• Ex copy: Lacking leaf 6.

Binding note

Ex copy bound in contemporary dark brown mottled calf, with spine title: Üeues des plus belle maison de France.

Provenance

Ex copy has armorial bookplate of a 17th cent. member of the Sainte-Marie d'Esquilly family (Normandy)

Source acquisition

Ex copy is gift of Susan Dwight Bliss.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Caption title from first plate

• Veües des plus beaux lieux de France et d'Italie

OCLC

41270681