Accession number:
PML 140080
Published:
[Paris? : s.n., between 1746 and 1770]
Description:
1 album (90 prints mounted on 46 leaves) : engravings ; 34 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Collection of 90 engravings, many of them proof impressions (including proofs before letters and etched states), dating from the years after Gravelot's return to France in 1746, inlaid in or mounted onto 46 leaves of a bound album. They include 56 impressions from the 80 subjects comprising the Suite de petits sujets (Paris : F. Chereau, n.d.), engraved by J. Bacheley after Gravelot's designs in 1770, as well as invitations, address cards, advertisements, and headpieces for funeral orations.
Binding:
Red morocco tooled in gilt by Zaehnsdorf.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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