The Palace of Alcine, 1664-73

People:

Israël Silvestre (role unspecified)

Title:

The Palace of Alcine, 1664-73

Date:

printed between 1664 and 1673

Description:

- One of nine folding illustrations to Israel Silvestre's text of ninety-one pages describing three days of festivities at Versailles (text lacking here).

Form:
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 print(s)

Technique and media:

Etching

Dimensions:

plate mark: 27.4 x 42.0 cm sheet: 41.8 x 53.4 cm

Reference number:

DR1984:1452

Inscription:

imprinted - by the etcher, in the plate on the image, l.l.: "Troisiesme [sic]"; l.r.: "Journée"; l.c.: " "Theatre dressé au milieu du grand Estang [sic] / representant l'Isle [sic] d'Alcine, ou paroissoit [sic] Son Palais / enchanté sortant d'un petit Rocher dans lequel fut dancé / un Ballet de plusieurs entrées, et apres quoy [sic] ce Palais fut / consumé, par un feu d'Artifice representant la rupture / de l'enchantement apres la fuite de Roger" signed - by the etcher, in the plate on the image, l.l.: "Israel Silvestre deline, et Sculpsit." numbered - by the etcher, in the plate below the image, l.r.: "8"

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

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