From A Treatise of the Five Orders of Architecture by Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Paris, 1708. Royal Academy of Paris, John James British translator.

Claude Perrault was a French physician and amateur architect. He is known for his design collaboration with Louis La Vaux and Charles Le Brun of the east façade of the Musee de Louvre. He also became known for his translation into French of the ten books of architecture by Vitruvius in 1673. The treatise on the Five Classical Orders followed a decade later in 1683.

9” x 13 1/2”

Etching and engraving on laid paper. Condition is excellent bright clean impressions with full margins.

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