A New Booke of Drawings...Containing Severall Sortes of Iron Worke as Gates, Frontispieces, Balconies, Staircases, Pannells, etc.

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A New Booke of Drawings...Containing Severall Sortes of Iron Worke as Gates, Frontispieces, Balconies, Staircases, Pannells, etc.

Nouveau livre de desseins...contenant plusieurs sortes d'ouvrages de fer comme, portes, frontispices, balcons, rampes, d'escaliers, panneaux, etc.

Designed by: Jean Tijou (French, active from 1689–1712)
Engraved by: Pieter van der Banck (French, worked in England, 1649–1697)
Engraved by: Michael van der Gucht (Flemish, worked in England, 1660–1725)
Engraved by: Peter Paul Bouché (Flemish, worked in England, born about 1646)
Engraved by: Blaise Gentot (French, born in 1653)
Engraved by: Paul van Somer II (Dutch (worked in France and England), about 1649–1694)
Title pages by: Louis Laguerre (French, 1663–1721)

1693

Place of Publication: London, England

Medium/Technique Set of prints with engraved title and 19 engravings

Dimensions Overall: 31 x 23.8 x 1.5 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/8 x 9/16 in.)

Credit Line John Wheelock Elliott Fund

Accession Number37.379

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets

London: the author, 1693

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 1323

Description(London: the author, 1693) Folio; 20 leaves, folded; contemporary blind-stamped brown marbled calf, rebacked (brown cloth case)

Allegorical engraved title, designs for decorative ironwork

ProvenanceInscribed title verso "Susanna Reynardson 1740"; Maggs Bros., London, from whom purchased by MFA, May 5, 1937.