Title etched below image., Engraved after a painting by Watteau, with attribution etched in both Latin and French below title: Scalptus juxtà exemplar à Watteavo pictum ... ; Gravé d'apres le tableau original peint par Watteau ..., Date of publication based on publisher's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 81 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Chez F. Chereau graveur du Roy ruë St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or
Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, ou, Les festes, et divertissements du roy, a Versailles, Festes, et diuertissements du roy, a Versailles, and Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee
Description:
1 unnumbered plate by Francois Chauveau, representing entertainments held in 1674 on the termination of the campaign in Franche-Comte., 5 plates, numbered I-V, by Jean Le Pautre, representing the festivities at Versailles on July 18, 1668., 5 unnumbered plates by Jean Le Pautre., Armorial bookplate with motto: Ubique patriam reminisci., Binding with French royal arms (Bourbon)., Nine plates, numbered 1-9, by Israel Silvestre., On spine: Tom. XI., The first series of 9 plates was originally published in 1673 under the title: Les plaisirs de l’isle enchantee ..., The next series of 5 plates was originally published in 1679 under the title: Relation de la feste de Versailles, du 18e juillet mil six cens soixante-huit., The third series of 6 plates was originally published in 1676 under the title: Les divertissemens de Versailles donnez par la roy a toute sa cour, au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte, en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV ..., The three sequences of plates were each originally published separately with text by Andre Felibien., and Two plates have Yale proprietary stamps on verso; all other versos blank.
Subject (Geographic):
France --Court and courtiers --Pictorial works
and France --History --Louis XIV, 1643-1715
Subject (Name):
Chauveau, Francois, 1613-1676, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Divertissemens de Versailles donnez par le roy a toute sa cour au retour de la conqueste de la Franche-Comte en l’annee M.DC.LXXIV, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Plaisirs de l’isle enchantee, Felibien, Andre, sieur des Avaux et de Javercy, 1619-1695. Relation de la feste de Versailles du dix-huitieme juillet mil six cents soixante-huit, Le Pautre, Jean, 1618-1682, and Silvestre, Israel, 1621-1691
From the Collection: Hanbury-Williams, Charles, 1708-1759
Published / Created:
1745 April 23–1749 July 14
Call Number:
LWL MSS 7
Container / Volume:
box 1
Image Count:
270
Description:
The volume holds 266 pages of letters primarily from Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, and Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, writing from Whitehall in London. Also present are letters of instruction from George II appointing Hanbury-Williams Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of the King of Poland in 1747 (pages 13-24), his letter of revocation in 1749 for reassignment to the Court of the King of Prussia (pages 199-202), and his instructions from King George II for travel to Anspach to invest Charles William Frederick, the Margrave of Anspach, with the Ensigns of the Order of the Garter (pages 263-265). The letters in the volume were bound nearly in chronological order.
Other items in the volume are a copy of a letter written in 1715 to George Townshend from members of the Board of Trade (pages 1-8) and a copy of Lord Harrington's letter to all ministers abroad regarding court couriers, with a list of charges for their trips between Whitehall or Hanover and foreign cities (pages 9-12). Near the end of the volume (pages 243-262), is a "Paper delivered by Count Fleming," in which Saxon minister Karl Georg Friedrich Flemming mentions the June 1747 "double wedding" of Bavarian Elector Maximilian Joseph and his sister Princess Maria Antonia to the Electoral Prince Friedrich Christian of Saxony and his sister Princess Maria Anna; the marriage united the ruling families of Bavaria and Saxony.
The volume is untitled; it is in a stiff-board binding covered in brown paper with a blue linen spine and has no label on the front cover. The Hanbury-Williams volume number is 34; the Phillipps number is 10906.
A shield with a gules chief, with three downward-pointing arrows upon it. Below, upon an argent field, is a sable bend cotised with three cinquefoils upon it. Above this is a small crescent. At the helm, atop a torse, is an armored right-handed arm grasping a fourth arrow. A pair of wings flanks this. Beneath the shield, upon a banner, is the motto Finis Coronat Opus.
Subject (Name):
Littlehales
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Arrow, Hand, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
Printed upon pink paper is a shield with an azure field featuring an argent cross. At the center of the cross is the plate owner's monogram. The shield is surrounded by elaborate leafing, flowers, and grasses. At the helm, atop a torse, is a demi rampant lion wearing a crown and presenting a crosslet fitchee in both paws. Above the image, upon a banner, is the motto Cruce Non Leone Fides.
Subject (Name):
Livett, H. W.
Subject (Topic):
Armorial bookplates, Cross, Lion, Shield, and Shields
A coat of arms divided into quarters, and those quarters again divided into quarters. Two diagonals featuring three crosses apiece are displayed across two of the larger quarters; the two remaining large quarters each display a hunting horn and a right-handed fist grasping a dagger. At the center is a crescent. Above the crest a knight's helmet is at the helm, flanked by mantling. Above this is the head of a boar. At the top of the image a motto reads Nunquam Obliviscar; at the bottom, a second motto reads Per Crucem Ad Lucem.
Subject (Name):
Campbell F. A., Campbell, D., and Campbell, Lorne Colin
Subject (Topic):
Amorial, Armorial bookplates, Heraldic bookplates, Nature, Physicians, Shield, and Sword