Accession number
PML 49011
Creator
Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste, approximately 1636-1699.
Published
Paris : N de Poilly, [1660-1690?]
Credit line
Gift of Junius S. Morgan and Henry S. Morgan, 1957.
Notes
Album containing a collection of 68 engravings of flowers on 52 leaves, including 56 designs on 46 leaves drawn and, in many cases, engraved by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, along with a suite of 12 designs on 6 leaves designed and engraved by Jacques Bailly, entitled "Diverses Fleurs mises en Boucquets"; plates by Monnoyer comprise 11 suites of plates, with 5 of them bearing separate titles, i.e.: Livre de toutes sortes de fleurs d'apres nature; Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs; Livres de plusieurs vaze de fleurs faicts d'apres le natural; Livres de plusieurs corbeilles de fleurs; Guirlande de fleurs.; library's copy contains 13 more designs than the similar album of collected engravings in the BNF described by Guilmard.
Album title devised by cataloger.
Individual suites of plates cataloged separately (see PML 49011.1-12).
Titles for untitled suites taken from accompanying dealer's description of the album's contents, affixed to recto of front flyleaf.
Album title devised by cataloger.
Individual suites of plates cataloged separately (see PML 49011.1-12).
Titles for untitled suites taken from accompanying dealer's description of the album's contents, affixed to recto of front flyleaf.
Description
[52] leaves (68 prints) : all ill. (engraving) ; 53 cm
Provenance
Estate of Mrs. J.P. Morgan.
Binding
Old vellum; housed in red clamshell box, with spine title: Livre de toutes sortes de fleurs.
Classification
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