print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- M,9.1-96
- Title
- Series: Recueil d'Antiquités
- Description
-
"Recueil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, Romaines et Gauloises. Supplément, Tome Septième" (Paris, N. M. Tilliard) 1767; containing 97 plates, numbered I to XCVII, depicting various Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and French antiquties, bound together with etched frontispiece showing a portrait of Caylus in profile surrounded by olive wreath, letterpress titlepage and text. Rebound in blue cloth boards.
Etchings
- Production date
- 1767
- Dimensions
-
Height: 255 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
- Curator's comments
- Seven volumes of the "Recueil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines" are kept together at 290.a.2 to 8 (1982,U.4520 to 4526).
Fold-out plates.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Recueil d'Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines
- Acquisition date
- 1769 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- MS note on flyleaf o the first volume: "Purchased by Order of Committee July 21. 1769"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- M,9.1-96
- Additional IDs
-
Other BM number: 1982,U.4526
