Accession number
PML 198248.1
Creator
Basan, François, 1723-1797.
Published
A Paris : Chez l'auteur, rue et Hôtel Serpente, et chez G. Desprez, imprimeur du roi et du clergé de France, rue St. Jacques, 1775.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
2941 lots (1450 drawings and other; 1491 prints).
Two states known; the second has "Fautes à corriger" added to p. 418; earlier state does not have these.
This copy in the second state.
Signatures: A⁸, ²A-2C⁸ 2D² (last leaf blank).
Head- and tail-pieces.
The plates include: etched, ornamental title page by Moreau le jeune; frontispiece engraved by Choffard after C.N. Cochin; four etchings by Mariette: two landscapes (one folded) after Guercino, "Le Pape Adrien VI et quatre Cardinaux" after Perino del Vaga, and one study with five heads, found in two states in this catalogue. One state has date only "1724" in lower right; other state has also added in lower left: L. Carrache; in lower right preceding date: Mariette sc.
In this copy the large landscape is bound as a two-page plate; the study with the five heads is in the state without the text in the lower left.
"Errata": p. vij.
"Livres d'estampes, sciences et arts, par ordre de faculté": pages 373-418.
This copy annotated throughout with prices and buyers' names.
Two states known; the second has "Fautes à corriger" added to p. 418; earlier state does not have these.
This copy in the second state.
Signatures: A⁸, ²A-2C⁸ 2D² (last leaf blank).
Head- and tail-pieces.
The plates include: etched, ornamental title page by Moreau le jeune; frontispiece engraved by Choffard after C.N. Cochin; four etchings by Mariette: two landscapes (one folded) after Guercino, "Le Pape Adrien VI et quatre Cardinaux" after Perino del Vaga, and one study with five heads, found in two states in this catalogue. One state has date only "1724" in lower right; other state has also added in lower left: L. Carrache; in lower right preceding date: Mariette sc.
In this copy the large landscape is bound as a two-page plate; the study with the five heads is in the state without the text in the lower left.
"Errata": p. vij.
"Livres d'estampes, sciences et arts, par ordre de faculté": pages 373-418.
This copy annotated throughout with prices and buyers' names.
Description
xvj, 418, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Book stamp of Stév.-F. Constant-Viguier.
Binding
Green vellum.
Classification
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Department