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The image displays swirling circular patterns on the surface, intertwined with organic shapes. The design resembles a marbled effect or grainy patterns in polished wood. The spirals and shapes resemble whirlpools or eddies in water. Warm brown tones with touches of deep blue and ochre enhance the natural feel of the composition.
National Gallery of Art · Volume
Atlas des Environs de Paris
Jean Delagrive
- Date
- 1740
- Medium
- bound volume with letterpress text title page and etching and engravings on laid paper
- Dimensions
- book: 65 × 51 × 3 cm (25 9/16 × 20 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.) sheet (each etching and engraving): 64 × 94 cm (25 3/16 × 37 in.)
- Classification
- Volume
- Accession number
- 2024.82.1
- Credit line
- Gift of David H. McDonnell
- Time span
- 1726 to 1750
- Department
- CG-E
Provenance
Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury (1776-1854), Paris [not in Lugt]. (Alexandre Maps & Books, Toronto); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2024.
Inscription
on title page, in letterpress text: ATLAS / DES ENVIRONS DE PARIS / par Mr. l'abbé DE LA GRIVE / Géographe de la ville de Paris. / de la Société Royale de Londres. / MDCCXL. [title page is composed of two sheets pasted together with the letterpress title at the top and Delagrive's small map of Paris below, the engraved inscription of which reads: Reduction des neuf feuilles des ENVIRONS DE PARIS de M. l'Abbé Delagrive. Par l'auteur 1754]; in gold-tooled letters on leather spine of the volume: ENVIRONS / DE / PARIS / DELAGRIVE
Marks
on title page, in blue ink: BIBLIOTHÉQUE / DE M. HÉRICART DE THURY / CONSEILLER D'ÉTAT [not in Lugt; Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury]
Watermarks
to be identified [from Auvergne?]
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