Research Catalog

Title

Papeterie [graphic] : contenant quatorze planches dont une double.

Author

Baratti, Antonio, 1724-1787

Publication

[À Livourne : De l'imprimerie des éditeurs, 1774]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.
• Bénard, 1731-1794.

Description

14 prints : etching, b&w; 43 x 57 cm. and 43 x 28 cm. +

Summary

Plate I (double-page plate) depicts the mill at Langlée, near Montargis, and some of its machinery. Plates I bis-XIII depict parts of paper mills and other papermaking machinery and implements; 7 include vignettes showing artisans at work.

Uniform Title

• Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.
• Encyclopédie.

Alternative Title

Papetterie.

Subject

• Paper mills > France > Langlée > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking in art > Early works to 1800
• Papermaking machinery in art > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Design drawings.

Note

• Title from caption of accompanying sheet of descriptions.
• Captions of plates begin "Papetterie ... "
• Detached from v. 5 of Recueil des planches ..., the plate volumes issued 1771-1778 to accompany the Livorno, 1770-1778 ed. of the Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and D'Alembert (text originally published Paris, 1751-1757 and Neuchâtel, 1765; plates originally published Paris, 1762-1772). The t.p. of v. 5 reads: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Troisieme édition. Quatrieme livraison, ou cinquieme volume, 248 planches. À Livourne : De l'imprimerie des éditeurs, 1774.
• Copies by Antonio Baratti of the original etchings by Robert Bénard, after drawings by L.J. Goussier, who wrote the accompanying descriptions. Eight are signed with Baratti's monogram AB.
• Numbered Pl. I, Pl. I bis, Pl. II-XIII; also numbered 234/235 and 236-248 as part of v. 5 of the set.
• Plate marks: 36 x 49 cm. and 36 x 23 cm.
• Relates to Goussier's article "Papeterie" in the Encyclopédie (v. 11, p. 834-845).

Call Number

Schlosser 215

OCLC

NYPG91-F283

Author

Baratti, Antonio, 1724-1787, etcher.

Title

Papeterie [graphic] : contenant quatorze planches dont une double.

Imprint

[À Livourne : De l'imprimerie des éditeurs, 1774]

Local Note

Provenance: U[lco] P[roost] (bookplate).

Added Author

Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799. Artist

Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799. Papeterie.

Bénard, 1731-1794.

Added Title

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.

Encyclopédie.

Papetterie.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 215