Gabriel-Martin DUMONT
Recueil de plusieurs parties d'architecture de différents maîtres tant d'Italie que de France
Chez l'auteur|Paris 1765|25 x 34 cm|relié
First edition of this collection of 75 plates including 4 engraved titles: Manière d'accoupler les colonnes et pilastres de l'ordre dorique (one title and 11 plates - the catalogue at the end announces 6 plates); Parallele de grands entablements et de charpentes à l'italienne (one title and 8 plates - the catalogue at the end announces 9); Suite de croisée des plus beaux palais de Rome (one title and 8 plates); Les Eglises des stations de Rome (one title and 10 plates); Suite de ruines d'architecture (33 plates, the catalogue announces 24).
The different copies held in public collections or in trade records are all different and do not contain the same parts, and sometimes not the same number of plates per section. Dumont offered at his residence several collections whose entirety is proposed at the end of the volume, being 230 plates contained in 14 collections. Collectors therefore chose certain titles and rejected others, thus forming their own volume. Furthermore, certain titles in this volume are not present in the catalogue.
The Suite de ruine d'architecture contains in this copy 33 plates while the table announces 24. Ultimately this section also contains Vases et fontaines de feu M. Challes with 3 plates, this feature is shared with the copy at the Bibliothèque nationale. The additional plates come from other titles in the catalogue, and if one considers several different copies one notes that the plates were sold with a certain disorder.
This copy contains a section with a frontispiece and 10 plates whose title is not present in the catalogue and whose author is no longer Dumont himself but Israel Henriet, entitled: Les Eglises des stations de Rome. One cannot know whether this collection was sold by Dumont or whether the collector already possessed it when integrating it with Dumont's titles.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Lacks to joints at head. Lower joint split at foot. Rubbing. Scratches on boards. A large dark stain on each board. 2 corners slightly bumped. Dry stamp on the first 2 title pages: G. Lageat. Architecte à Lannion. Some collections, notably the first ones, have the plates in landscape format, the others in standard format.
The entire set of plates consists of etchings and engravings on copper, engraved by Dumont, Charpentier and Germain, the plates of Les Eglises des stations de Rome by Israel Henriet. Numerous plates bear the date 1765. The etchings in the Ruines d'architecture section are particularly beautiful and very close in spirit to Piranesi's plates.
The different copies held in public collections or in trade records are all different and do not contain the same parts, and sometimes not the same number of plates per section. Dumont offered at his residence several collections whose entirety is proposed at the end of the volume, being 230 plates contained in 14 collections. Collectors therefore chose certain titles and rejected others, thus forming their own volume. Furthermore, certain titles in this volume are not present in the catalogue.
The Suite de ruine d'architecture contains in this copy 33 plates while the table announces 24. Ultimately this section also contains Vases et fontaines de feu M. Challes with 3 plates, this feature is shared with the copy at the Bibliothèque nationale. The additional plates come from other titles in the catalogue, and if one considers several different copies one notes that the plates were sold with a certain disorder.
This copy contains a section with a frontispiece and 10 plates whose title is not present in the catalogue and whose author is no longer Dumont himself but Israel Henriet, entitled: Les Eglises des stations de Rome. One cannot know whether this collection was sold by Dumont or whether the collector already possessed it when integrating it with Dumont's titles.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Lacks to joints at head. Lower joint split at foot. Rubbing. Scratches on boards. A large dark stain on each board. 2 corners slightly bumped. Dry stamp on the first 2 title pages: G. Lageat. Architecte à Lannion. Some collections, notably the first ones, have the plates in landscape format, the others in standard format.
The entire set of plates consists of etchings and engravings on copper, engraved by Dumont, Charpentier and Germain, the plates of Les Eglises des stations de Rome by Israel Henriet. Numerous plates bear the date 1765. The etchings in the Ruines d'architecture section are particularly beautiful and very close in spirit to Piranesi's plates.
€1,800