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print
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ornament print
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album
Object Type
print
ornament print
album
Museum number
1938,0311.7.9
Title
Object:
Elévation du château d'eau de Villaserf
Series:
Plans et dessins nouveaux de jardinage du Sr. Le Bouteux
Description
A grotto in the gardens of Villacerf; swans swimming in pool in the foreground, and beyond a wall decorated with rusticated pilasters, terms and classical statues flanking a central niche; the wall is surmounted by water jets spurting from fake rocks; at the apex is a statue representing Neptune on his chariot Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Michel Le Bouteux
Published by:
Nicolas I Langlois
School/style
French
Production date
1681-1683
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
247 millimetres
Width:
348 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See 1938,0311.7.1 for comment on series.
Bibliographic references
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(20.II)
Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin
(3452)
Fuhring 2004 / Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century
(not described)
Guilmard 1880/1 / Les Maitres Ornemanistes: Écoles Française, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande et Hollandaise)
(113.78)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
fountain
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Acquisition date
1938
Acquisition notes
Bound in album of ornament prints, with pencil annotation 'Transferred from Dept. of Printed Books / to Dept. of Prints & Drawings 9/iv/38' on the second page, and with red stamp '5 NO 50' on the last print of the album.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1938,0311.7.9