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Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing Twenty-eight entire new Designs, beautifully engraved on copper plates, with scales to each. To which is added, a full Explanation, in Letter Press, and the true Method of executing them.
1767
L 487 LR/2 Recto
Département des Arts graphiques
Inventory number
L 487 LR/2 Recto
Handwritten inventory reference:
vol.9, p.62Collection
Département des Arts graphiques
Collection Edmond de Rothschild
Collection Edmond de Rothschild
Artist/maker / School / Artistic centre
Description
Object name/Title
Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing Twenty-eight entire new Designs, beautifully engraved on copper plates, with scales to each. To which is added, a full Explanation, in Letter Press, and the true Method of executing them.
Description/Features
Description de l'album :
[Sur la page de titre] By William Wrighte, architect. London: Printed for Henry Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane. MDCCLXVII
In-8, reliure basane, fil. doré.
[Sur la page de titre] By William Wrighte, architect. London: Printed for Henry Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane. MDCCLXVII
In-8, reliure basane, fil. doré.
Places and dates
Date
1767
History
Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Dernière provenance : Rothschild, baron Edmond de
Acquisition details
don
Acquisition date
1935
Location of object
Current location
Réserve Edmond de Rothschild
Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c
L 487 LR
Folio 3
gravé au recto
Grotesque Architecture, or, Rural Amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c
L 487 LR
Folio 3
gravé au recto
L'œuvre est visible sur rendez-vous en salle de consultation des Arts graphiques
Last updated on 21.03.2025
The contents of this entry do not necessarily take account of the latest data.
The contents of this entry do not necessarily take account of the latest data.
Full entry on the collection website of the Department of Prints and Drawings:
http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/1/624058-Grotesque-Architecture-or-Rural-Amusement-consisting-of-plans-elevations-and-sections-for-huts-retreats-summer-and-winter-hermitages-terminaries-chinese-gothic-and-natural-grottos-cascades-baths-mosques-moresque-pavilions-grotesque-and-rustic-seats-green-houses-c-Many-of-which-may-be-executed-with-flints-irregular-stones-rude-branches-and-roots-of-trees-The-whole-containing-Twenty-eight-entire-new-Designs-beautifully-engraved-on-copper-plates-with-scales-to-each-To-which-is-added-a-full-Explanation-in-Letter-Press-and-the-true-Method-of-executing-them
