Accession number
PML 195756.1
Creator
Delafosse, Jean-Charles, 1734-1789
Published
Paris : Daumont, [177-?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Includes 9 suites of prints containing 4 plates each (i.e. Cahiers M, I, R, EE, C, B, F, FF and A), making a total 36 plates, comprising a select portion of a much larger set of Delafosse plates issued by Daumont, the whole evidently consisting in its entirety of suites numbered A-Z and AA-II. Cf. Guilmard.
Plates do not appear in alphabetical order in library's copy and contents is recorded in the order in which the individual suites of plates appear in the album into which they are bound; the album contains two additional sets of published plates bound in among the suites of plates by Delafosse, with cahiers M and I physically separated by the 6 plates comprising Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Decorations du lambris du côté du sopha du salon de Brunois", cahiers R and EE separated by plates A.1-6 of Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Divers decorations de cheminée", and cahiers EE and C separated by plates B.1-6 of Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Divers decorations de cheminée".
Plates do not appear in alphabetical order in library's copy and contents is recorded in the order in which the individual suites of plates appear in the album into which they are bound; the album contains two additional sets of published plates bound in among the suites of plates by Delafosse, with cahiers M and I physically separated by the 6 plates comprising Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Decorations du lambris du côté du sopha du salon de Brunois", cahiers R and EE separated by plates A.1-6 of Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Divers decorations de cheminée", and cahiers EE and C separated by plates B.1-6 of Jean Mansart de Jouy's "Divers decorations de cheminée".
Description
[36] leaves of plates : all ill. (engraving) ; 44 cm
Provenance
Purchased from Roger Gaskell, 2011.
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