[Designs for ironwork]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Designs for ironwork]
Other titles: Dessins de serrurerie
Classmark: Bedford Collection A605
Creator(s): Hasté, Michel (1676-1693)
Additional creator(s): Poilly, François de (1623-1693) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Maison de Ventes, Lino Pesaro, Milan (Bookseller)
Publisher: Chez F. Poilly, rue St Jacqaes a limage St Benoist
Publication city: [Paris]
Date(s): [16--]
Language: French
Size and medium: 6 numbered leaves of plates [etchings]
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730861
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019863356205181
Description
First plate has dedication to Monsieur de l'Espine, the king's architect, by Michel Hasté, the designer.
Dedication: Monsieur Il est bien raisonnable que ces Ouvrages soint honorez de vostre Nom puisqu'ils ont eu l'honneur de vostre aprobation à vous estes le sage Architecte qui a eslevé les Bastimens considérables dans lesquels jay execute ces desseins sous vos ordres, c'est vous rendre ce qui vous apartient que de vous les Consacrer. vous leur avez donne l'Estre, et lon peut dire que vous en estes le Pere et le premier Mobile : et que c'est a vous que le public en sera plus obligé qu'amoy qui sera ploire de me dire toute ma vie Monsieur Vostre tres humble et tres oblige Serviteur Mic. Haste M. Serurier a Paris.
The plates depict wrought iron gates, railings, stair balustrades, balconies, finials. Plates by F. Poilly ex. cum privilegio [and] De Poilly ex. C. P. R..
Indexed in: Berlin Ornamentstichsammlung,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A605: excerpt from sale catalogue for this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A605: Twentieth-century [modern] decorated paper over boards, spine label: Maison de ventes, Lino Pesaro, Milan, 637 [i.e. Lino Pesaro, Auction House and Art Gallery, Milan, 1917-1937].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A605: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: MO/6.
Access and usage
Access
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