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Engraved plate of a Polish-style canopy bed with a domed iron canopy, turned legs and dimension lines in pieds.

Lit à la Polonoise préparé de Menuiserie

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Engraved plate of six trophy designs combining torches, a lyre, swords, wheat, and flower garlands.

Trophy Designs

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved title page with an ornate oval cartouche, coat of arms, lions, satyr figures and a lion mask above lettered text.

Title page

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraved oval portrait of a young man with curly hair, a white collar and cross pendant, with a coat of arms below.

Portrait of Cardinal Emmanuel-Théodore de la Tour-d'Auvergne, duc d'Abret (1644-1715)

Antoine Masson, 1660

Engraved plate showing four ornamental rosette designs with stylized leaves and central florets, numbered page 87.

Rosette Designs

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved plate showing four stacked balustrade designs with scrolls, rosettes, interlocking links and geometric lattice patte

Four Balustrade Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, 1780

Engraved architectural plate showing front and section views of a window sill with corbels and an air vent, with a scale bar.

Tablette d appui de Croisée avec soupirail

Juste Nathan François Boucher, 1770

Engraved floor plan of the Hostel de la Basignere showing courtyard, rooms, and staircases with a toise scale bar.

Plan de l’Hostel de la Basignere

Jean Marot, 1630

Engraved design sheet with an ornamental cross flanked by crescent and pedestal motifs, decorated with fine scrollwork.

Designs for a Cross and Ornament

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Engraved architectural elevation of a Doric carriage gate with pediment, sphinxes, medallion and double doors.

Developpement d'une Porte Cochere de l'ordonnance Dorique

Flemish Jean-François de Neufforge, 1760

Engraved plate of a canopied bed with tasselled drapery, floral garlands and feather plumes, titled Lit à la Duchesse.

Lit à la Duchesse

Pierre Ranson, 1790

Hand-colored print of a couple seated under a tree, framed by an ornate rococo border of red and blue flowers.

Couple Beneath Tree

Martin Engelbrecht, 1680

Engraving of a sea-themed cartouche with a trident, shell, crab, seaweed and waves, numbered 12 in the top corner.

Escutcheon, from "Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouche"

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1720

Engraved design of a three-armed candelabra with oak-leaf branches, flanked by two putti on a decorated pedestal.

Girandole (Candelabra) Design

Jean François Forty, 1770

Engraved rococo design for a clock case with a blank circular medallion, cherubs, scrollwork and a grotesque mask below.

Design for a Cartel Clock Case

Thomas Lainé, 1800

Engraved plate numbered 16 showing a rococo ewer with a scrolling handle, shell-shaped spout and footed base.

Buirre pour les Évèque

Pierre Germain, 1740

Etching of a bearded man with long hair, white collar and dark clothing against a hatched dark background.

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1870

Engraving of an andiron design with a figure holding a globe, flanked by sphinxes and small ornamental urns.

Design for an Andiron

Jean Cotelle, 1620

Etched page with two rococo cartouches surrounded by putti, foliage, drapery and emblems, numbered 13 in the lower right.

SECOND LIVRE de Fragmens, a l’usage de differens Artistes, DEDIÉ A.M. le Marquis de Voyer d’Argenson

Engraved ornament plate with a black oval cartouche of scrollwork and flowers inside a decorative foliate border, on a page.

Ornament Design

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Engraved title page with three putti among metalworking tools, candlesticks, and vases beside a chimney and foliage.

Title Page

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1760

Woodblock print of boats crowded on a river with streamer-hung poles in the foreground and a distant mountain under blue sky.

Miyato River by Great Bank of Asakusa River, No 68 from One Hundred Views of Edo (Asakusa-gawa Okawa-bata, Miyato-gawa)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Etching of peasants drinking and smoking under a vine trellis, a woman pouring a drink beside a child at a doorway.

The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

Jonas Suyderhoef, 1650

Woodcut of crucified Christ surrounded by saints, angels, and rose garlands, with figures rising from flames below.

The Great Rosary

Erhard Schön, 1510

Engraved page with two ornamental panels of flower garlands, scrolls, and ribbon bows, one with a flower urn and one with a m

Decorative Panel Designs

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved rococo design for a mantel clock case with putti, a shell canopy, lion figures and an empty central cartouche.

Mantel Clock Case Design

Gilles Marie Oppenord, 1730

Hand-coloured print of a blue fluted stove column with pink relief bands, an urn on top, and a marble pedestal in an arched n

POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1780

Engraved print of an ornate urn with scrolled handles, holding flowers and garlands on a pedestal table.

Vase with Flowers

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved plate of muscular nude men and draped figures with a pointing angel in clouds above, after Michelangelo's Last Judgm

Plate, from Le Jugement Universel

Tommaso Piroli, 1800

Engraved dedication page with a shield bearing a fleur-de-lis, flanked by birds and a putto, above French dedicatory text.

Dedication / Title Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, 1700