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Recueil des decorations de fontaines

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Dumesnil, Louis-Claude
d. 1769

Recueil des decorations de fontaines

Binding: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (195 x 243 mm); leaves: 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (186 x 237 mm)
Pen and black and brown inks, over graphite, on paper.
2006.41
Notes
This album contains forty-one drawings, seventeen of which depict fountains and twenty-four of which show "orchestres."
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on title-page, in pen and black ink, "Recüeil / Des Decorations De Fontaines Et Orchestes / Qui Ont Etées faittes A Paris, lors du Retour du / Roy le 7 Septembre 1745." Each illustration is accompanied by a handwritten inscription on the opposite page.
Associated names
Dumesnil, Pierre-Louis, 1698-1781.
Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department