Description | Prints from a variety of 19th century French publications.
1/1-4 Steel engravings of measured architectural drawings c. early 19th century engraved by Martel and Boullay. Architects: Navarre, Bigle, Feydeau, and Gastellirt. Shop interior, two wall panels, and ceilings of a hotel. Plates 73-78 (incomplete).
2/1-11 Steel engravings (heliogravures) from an encyclopedia of furniture published c. mid 19th century by Ch. Schmid, drawn by Bajot. Examples of 16th-early 19th century French and Flemish furniture, plates II-XXXI (incomplete)
3 Coloured lithograph pl.G1 from a publication of modern furniture published by Ch. Claesen; Paris, c. mid 19th century” a Russian style buffet.
4 Coloured lithographs pl. 19 from “Palais et Chateaux de France” published by A Morel, Paris, c. mid 19th century: decorations from the Hotel Lambert (17th century)
5/1-9 Steel engravings from two publications prepared by the architect Cesar Daly, c. mid 19th century.
A. “Motifs Historiques”. Measured drawings of interiors and exteriors of buildings from the periods of Henry II, III, and IV of France.
B. “L’Architecture Privee au XiXme. Siecle” 2nd series, interiors of three dining rooms, designed by Manguin, Mangeant and Huguelin.
6/1-2 Photo lithograph and steel engraving, plates 31 and 64 from the “Moniteur des Architectes” 1891: a doorway of the gothic Collegiale d’Oiron and a 16th century decorated bed.
7/1-9 Lithographs (many coloured) from “Esquisses Decoratives” by Rene Binet (architect) published by the Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, c. 1880’s. The designs and drawings are by Binet; they are not numbered. They depict examples of decorative metal work, glass work, wood and stone work, and plaster, for buildings and their fittings and a bridge.
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