Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Veue de la face exterieure de la Grotte des Versailles // [View of the exterior face of the Versailles Grotto].
Call Number
A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles GA 2012.01386
Identifier
ark:/88435/2r36v5666
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1672.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1672
Extent
1 item ; sheet 49 x 68 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, Engraving
Signed in plate, lower right: "le Potre sculps. 1672".
Depiction: Architectural detail from façade of the grotto of Thetis with bas-reliefs of Apollo, tritons, cupids, and dolphins. Various figures standing in foreground.

Discovery Information

Subject
Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France)—In art
Architecture—Details—France—Versailles—In art
Decoration and ornament, Architectural—France—Versailles—In art
Grottoes (Garden structures)—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/2e0eb0dd-4554-4eed-b7b2-79478d4a25d1/manifest