Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
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Type of record: Book
Title: Album of eighteenth-century plates of ornamental designs for trophies, shields, vases, print rooms etc
Classmark: Bedford Collection A148
Additional creator(s): Vivares, François and others (1709-1780) (Creator); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Charpentier, Francois-Phillipe? (1734-1817) (Other); Angier, Paul (1725-1757) (Other); Benoist, Antoine (1721-1770?) (Other); Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682) (Engraver); Delafosse, Jean Baptiste? (1721-1806) (Other); Eisen, Charles-Doinique-Joseph (1720-1778) (Other); Darly, Matthew (1721-1780) (Engraver); Le Romain, Jacques Dumont (1701-1781) (Other); Edwards, George (1694-1773) (Other); Peyrotte, Alexis (1699-1769) (Other); Brunetti, Gaetano? (1758) (Other); Babel, Pierre Edme (1775) (Engraver); Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-1788) (Artist); Hemerick (Engraver); Sympson, Samuel (1751) (Printer); Vivares, Thomas (1744-1783) (Engraver)
Related people: Huet, Christophe, 1700-1759
Publisher: F Vivares et al
Publication city: London; Paris
Date(s): [approximately 1754-1798]
Language: English
Size and medium: 30 leaves of 82 plates [60 unnumbered pages]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/724718
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019831978005181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Album or scrapbook containing eighteenth-century ornamental plates.
Bedford Collection copy A148 contains plates from: 1. A book of trophies by Charpentier: sold by Fran[çois] Vivares [1798], 6 plates on 3 leaves including title page -- 2. Angier, P, A new book of hunting trophies engraved from the drawings of the celebrated Monsieur Huet properly adapted to the new method of ornamenting rooms and screens with prints: sold by Francois Vivares at the Golden Head in Great Newport Street, title page, plate 2,3,6, and one unnumbered -- 3. Benoist, A, after Vivares, A book of different trophies: published as the act directs by F Vivares, June 7, 1769, title page, plates 4, 5, 6 [2 impressions] -- 4. Le Pautre, Trophes a l'antique nouvellement invanter et gravez par I le Pautre A Paris, sold by Samuel Sympson at his Printshop in Catherine Street Strand where is sold several books of the same master [date?], title page of 2 plates -- 5. Delafosse, A new book of vases, published and sold by Francois Vivares, 1770, engraved by Thomas Vivares, title page -- 6. J Dumont le Romain, Livre de nouveaux trophez inventez, A Paris chez Huquier, c.1735, title page, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 [2 to a sheet ] -- 7. Eisen, Charles, A new books of Japanning prints, sold by T. Kitchen at the Star on Holborn-Hill, published October 16th 1757, title page, 2, 3, 4 -- 8. Edwards and Darly, A new book of Chinese designs, 1754, 3 unnumbered plates, 5, 7, 38, 45, 70, 75, 108, 2 further plates[?] by Hoppenhaupt -- 9. Ein neues lauber büchlein von allerhand artigen inventionen, title page, 2, 3, 4, 5 [2 designs], 1 unnumbered [oval fruits & foliage?] --10. Hemerick after Nilson, Arts & traffick flourish best in time of peace, A new book of shields [before 1780], printed & sold by F. Vivares, title page, 2, 3 -- 11. Babel, single plate, engraved by P.B -- 12. Peyrotte, [Chinoiserie designs], printed & sold by F. Vivares at the Golden Head in Newport Street, near Leicesterfields, title page?, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 -- 13. Le Pautre [Potre], A Paris chez Pierre Mariette fils rue St. Jacques avec collomnes d'hercule, 2 plates; 2 plates Samuel Sympson (at his print shop Catherine Street Strand); 1 plate A Paris chez N Langlois rue St Jacques; 2 plates le Blond [Vases], plate 4 -- 14. Polydor de Carasagio, [vase], S Sympson -- 15. G. Brunetti, A book of ornaments [designed by G. Brunetti] oblong plates, title page, 2 unnumbered plates, 2 [reversed 2?], 4, 6 -- 16. G. Brunetti, A book of ornaments [designed by G. Brunetti], title page, 3, 5, then 4 upright unnumbered plates?
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A148: loose notes in John Bedford's hand identifying the plates and publications from which they are taken; photocopied pages from a catalogue describing a similar album owned by The Chippendale Society.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A148: [19th century?] paper covers with Trophies in MS. on spine, printed blue and white label on front cover: Divers, modern [20th century] blue book box, Carver's album of ornamental designs on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A148: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Blue and white printed book label on back cover: Divers.
Access and usage
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