Les dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, avec les notes de Perrault
Artwork Details
- Title: Les dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, avec les notes de Perrault
- Author: Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
- Author: Written and translated by Claude Perrault (French, 1613–1688)
- Designer: after Berardo Galiani (Italian, died 1771)
- Designer: after Louis Eugène Thomas Tardieu (French, 19th century)
- Engraver: August Hibon (French, 1780–1857)
- Engraver: J. J. Ollivier de Castres (French, 19th century)
- Engraver: Emile-Edmond Ollivier (French, Versailles 1800–1864 Paris)
- Editor: Louis Ambroise Coussin (French, 1798–1846)
- Publisher: Louis Eugène Thomas Tardieu (French, 19th century) , and Louis Ambroise Coussin
- Published in: Paris
- Date: [ca. 1880]
- Medium: Printed book with engraved illustrations
- Dimensions: 12 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (31.1 × 24.8 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
- Object Number: 41.100.279.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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