Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Pilier orne de coquillages et de rocailles, avec un bassin de marbre en forme de coquille // [Pillar decorated with shells and stones, with a marble basin shaped like a cockleshell].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01395
Identifier
ark:/88435/8c97kz53d
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1673.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1673
Extent
1 item ; sheet 58.7 x 45.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Acquired by Princeton in 1886 in an exchange with the Bibliotheque nationale (France). John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, effected the exchange, recorded by the BN as "Double e'change" No. 907.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Depiction: Architectural detail of ornamental pillar with shell basin flanked by mermaid and merman, gargoyle head above.
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1673".

Discovery Information

Subject
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
Columns—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—France—Versailles—In art
Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art
Palaces—France—Versailles—In art
Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Description de la grotte de Versailles—Illustrations
Bibliotheque nationale (France)—Former owner

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/68a8e366-b901-4650-89cb-79f92d997963/manifest