Lettre sur la sculpture : à Monsieur Théod. de Smeth, ancien Président des Echevins de la ville d'Amsterdam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemsterhuis, François, 1721-1790 16488

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, 1721-1796, associated name.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Sculpture--79710.

Sculpture.

Physical Description:

[4], 31 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. (4to)

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam : Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1769.

Notes:

Signatures: n[superscript 2]A-D[superscript 4].

Local Notes:

3 plates.

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Académie Française, Paris, Discours . . . à la réception de M. l'Abbé Morellet, q.v.; number 10 in table of contents; item 11 in volume. C. G. F. Dumas to Franklin, after 28? January 1774: "Il doit y avoir environ 3 ans, que je vous ai adressé par la voie de Rotterdam un pacquet contenant . . . quelques exemplaires d'une Lettre sur la sculpture" (P 21: 35). Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in the hand of William Temple Franklin; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (16); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.