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French School: Unidentified French 18th C artist, Volume entitled (on p.1) Recueil/de pensees, Plainsanteries/Bons-mots,/Vers, Epigrammes,/ Scenes,/Chansons, Cannevas et faceties/Presque tout est demoy, containing miscellaneous notes and extracts, dated 1758-1761. At the back, following the English title, Miscellaneous Sketches, probably added at a later date, several contemporary vignettes, caricatures and architectural sketches on pages numbered 1-45. Bound in leather, decorative spine insc: Bonmots and Drawings (195 x 150)
Reference number
Vol 5
Purpose
French School: Unidentified French 18th C artist, Volume entitled (on p.1) Recueil/de pensees, Plainsanteries/Bons-mots,/Vers, Epigrammes,/ Scenes,/Chansons, Cannevas et faceties/Presque tout est demoy, containing miscellaneous notes and extracts, dated 1758-1761. At the back, following the English title, Miscellaneous Sketches, probably added at a later date, several contemporary vignettes, caricatures and architectural sketches on pages numbered 1-45. Bound in leather, decorative spine insc: Bonmots and Drawings (195 x 150)
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Medium and dimensions
Bound in leather, decorative spine insc: Bonmots and Drawings (195 x 150)
Hand
Unidentified 18th century French draughtsman
Notes
Please see sketchbook catalogue
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural,
design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for
scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to
preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and
it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance
masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries
and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and
George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings
in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early
work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of
his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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