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La perspective aérienne, soumise à des principes puisés dans la nature, ou, Nouveau traité de clair-obscur et de chromatique, à l'usage des artistes : avec figures / par M. de Saint-Morien.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection RBC 2026 101
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- St. Morien, de, author.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Technique--Early works to 1800.
- Painting.
- Colors--Early works to 1800.
- Colors.
- Chiaroscuro--Early works to 1800.
- Chiaroscuro.
- Perspective--Early works to 1800.
- Perspective.
- Painting--Technique.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- 7, [4], 10-174 pages, II folded leaves of plates : illustrations (1 color) ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Perspective aérienne, soumise à des principes puisés dans la nature
- Nouveau traité de clair-obscur et de chromatique, à l'usage des artistes
- Fingerprint:
- reu- e-et e.n- pa(1 (3) 1788 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Didot fils, ainé, libraire ..., MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
- Notes:
- Signatures: 1⁴ chi1 2-21⁴ 22⁴(-'22'4).
- Errata on leaf chi1r.
- Engraved plates (1 hand-colored).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center RBC 2026 101 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2026 from Bruce McKittrick. A few early manuscript corrections to text. Bookseller's description of this copy laid in. "Original stiff orange wrappers re-covered [in] contemporary bronze, orange, green and purple Brokatpapier with hunters blowing horns, dogs, vines, fruits and flowers, outer and most lower edges [untrimmed]."--Bookseller's description.
- OCLC:
- 54632155
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