A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern...to which is added an account of Architects and Architecture...with Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of Statues

1664

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Title: A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern...to which is added an account of Architects and Architecture...with Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of Statues
Author: Roland Fréart Sieur de Chambray (French, 1606–1676)
Author: Leon Battista Alberti (Italian, Genoa 1404–1472 Rome)
Translator: John Evelyn (British, 1620–1706 Wotton, Surrey)
Author: An Account written by John Evelyn (British, 1620–1706 Wotton, Surrey)
Printer: Thomas Roycroft (London)
Publisher: John Place (London)
Published in: London
Date: 1664
Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 13 1/16 x 9 x 13/16 in. (33.2 x 22.8 x 2 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Object Number: 41.100.45
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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