First Day: the Banquet

People:

Israël Silvestre (role unspecified)

Title:

First Day: the Banquet

Date:

1673

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Technique and media:

Etching

Dimensions:

plate mark: 27.9 x 42.2 cm sheet: 41.7 x 53.3 cm

Reference number:

DR1984:1450

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

one of nine folding illustrations to Israel Silvestre's text ofninety-one pages describing three days of festivities at Versailles (textlacking here)

Inscription:

inscribed - Première Journée (bottom, on either side of the following),Festin du Roy, et des Reynes, avec/plusieurs Princesses et Dames, servi detous/les mets et presens faits par les Dieux et les/quatre Saisons. (bottomcentre), Israel Silvestre, deline, et sculpsit parisiis (lower left), No. 6(lower right)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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