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[Planche 25] As new whims are everyday starting into being, I have placed this here, not as an example of beauty, or for imitation
1755
L 424 LR/26 Recto
Département des Arts graphiques
Inventory number
L 424 LR/26 Recto
Handwritten inventory reference:
vol.9, p.60Collection
Département des Arts graphiques
Collection Edmond de Rothschild
Collection Edmond de Rothschild
Artist/maker / School / Artistic centre
Description
Object name/Title
[Planche 25] As new whims are everyday starting into being, I have placed this here, not as an example of beauty, or for imitation
Description/Features
Description de l'album :
[Sur la page de titre] : London: Sold by Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street. MDCCLV.
In-8, volume broché, couverture en papier bleu marbré.
[Sur la page de titre] : London: Sold by Robert Sayer, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street. MDCCLV.
In-8, volume broché, couverture en papier bleu marbré.
Places and dates
Date
1755
History
Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Dernière provenance : Rothschild, baron Edmond de
Acquisition details
don
Acquisition date
1935
Location of object
Current location
Réserve Edmond de Rothschild
Architecture improved, in a collection of Modern, Elegant and useful Designs; from Slight and Graceful Recesses, Lodges and other Decorations in Parks, Gardens, Woods or Forests, to the Portico, Bath, Observatory, and interior Ornaments of Superb Buildings. With Great Variety of Rich Embellishments for Chimneys in the Taste of Inigo Jones, Mr. Kent, &c. All curiously Engraved On Fifty Copper-Plates, Octavo. Designed by Robert Morris, Surveyor. Late of Hyde-Park-Street, Grosvenor-Square.
L 424 LR
Folio 32
gravé au recto
Architecture improved, in a collection of Modern, Elegant and useful Designs; from Slight and Graceful Recesses, Lodges and other Decorations in Parks, Gardens, Woods or Forests, to the Portico, Bath, Observatory, and interior Ornaments of Superb Buildings. With Great Variety of Rich Embellishments for Chimneys in the Taste of Inigo Jones, Mr. Kent, &c. All curiously Engraved On Fifty Copper-Plates, Octavo. Designed by Robert Morris, Surveyor. Late of Hyde-Park-Street, Grosvenor-Square.
L 424 LR
Folio 32
gravé au recto
This artwork is on view by appointment in the reference room for prints and drawings
Last updated on 28.07.2025
The contents of this entry do not necessarily take account of the latest data.
The contents of this entry do not necessarily take account of the latest data.
Full entry on the collection website of the Department of Prints and Drawings:
http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/1/620649-Planche-25-As-new-whims-are-everyday-starting-into-being-I-have-placed-this-here-not-as-an-example-of-beauty-or-for-imitation