Les dix livres d’architecture de Vitruve, avec les notes de Perrault

Multiple artists/makers

[ca. 1880]

Not on view

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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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