Residences Memorables de ... Prince Eugene Francois Duc de Savoye et de Piemont. Premiere - Dixieme Partie / Wunder würdiges Kriegs-und Siegs-Lager des ... Herrn Eugenii Francisci Herzogen zu Savoyen und Piemont. Erster - Zehendter Theil. [Together with:] Representation des Animaux de la Menagerie / Vorbildung Aller ausländischen Thiere, so in dem Thier-Garten
Kleiner, Salomon
Augsburg. Chez les Heritiers de seu Ieremie Wolff / In Verlegung Jeremias Wolffs. 1731–1740
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First edition of the comprehensive depiction of the Viennese summer palace of Eugene of Savoy together with the rare suite on his menagerie.
This comprehensive work depicts the gardens, architecture (views and sections), interiors and menagerie of Prince Eugene François, Duke of Savoy and Piedmont's summer palace (later known as the Belvedere Palace). The very fine plates, all after Salomon Kleiner, are remarkable for their perspective and detail and depict the architectural work of Johann Lucas von Hildebrand, the interiors and ornament of Claude le Fort du Plessy and the gardens and fountains of Dominique Girard.
The striking plates were engraved by many of the best of the engravers of the day: Johann August Corvinus, Jacobus Wangner, Jacobus Gottlieb Thelot, Johann Balthasar Probst, Gottfried Pfauz, and others. The cut-away architectural views are particularly striking, however, all of the plates are enlivened by glimpses of everyday life: visitors promenade through the gardens and interiors pointing out items of interest to each other and appearing to admire the elegant taste of the buildings, decoration and gardens, a courtier takes snuff, visitors contemplate a portrait of Adam and Eve together with the snake, apple in mouth and a man admires a trompe l'oeil ceiling; even the vignettes are enlivened, with, for example, an ostrich strolling past a gate-house.
The final suite in the work (published in 1734 but here bound in at the rear of the volume) depicts the animals of Eugene's menagerie, based on that of Versailles, at the Belvedere. Depicted already in the context of the gardens, the menagerie includes a wide variety of exotica including a large number of monkeys, parrots, ostriches, flamingoes and vultures as well as curiosities such as a pair of American bison, a four-horned goat and 'un Chien Tripolitain, né sans pieds de devant' and thus depicted walking on his hind legs.
[Berlin 2117 (both works); Brunet III, 674; not in RIBA; not in Cicognara; not in Millard].
This comprehensive work depicts the gardens, architecture (views and sections), interiors and menagerie of Prince Eugene François, Duke of Savoy and Piedmont's summer palace (later known as the Belvedere Palace). The very fine plates, all after Salomon Kleiner, are remarkable for their perspective and detail and depict the architectural work of Johann Lucas von Hildebrand, the interiors and ornament of Claude le Fort du Plessy and the gardens and fountains of Dominique Girard.
The striking plates were engraved by many of the best of the engravers of the day: Johann August Corvinus, Jacobus Wangner, Jacobus Gottlieb Thelot, Johann Balthasar Probst, Gottfried Pfauz, and others. The cut-away architectural views are particularly striking, however, all of the plates are enlivened by glimpses of everyday life: visitors promenade through the gardens and interiors pointing out items of interest to each other and appearing to admire the elegant taste of the buildings, decoration and gardens, a courtier takes snuff, visitors contemplate a portrait of Adam and Eve together with the snake, apple in mouth and a man admires a trompe l'oeil ceiling; even the vignettes are enlivened, with, for example, an ostrich strolling past a gate-house.
The final suite in the work (published in 1734 but here bound in at the rear of the volume) depicts the animals of Eugene's menagerie, based on that of Versailles, at the Belvedere. Depicted already in the context of the gardens, the menagerie includes a wide variety of exotica including a large number of monkeys, parrots, ostriches, flamingoes and vultures as well as curiosities such as a pair of American bison, a four-horned goat and 'un Chien Tripolitain, né sans pieds de devant' and thus depicted walking on his hind legs.
[Berlin 2117 (both works); Brunet III, 674; not in RIBA; not in Cicognara; not in Millard].
Complete in 10 parts: Part I: title, dedication, frontispiece + 8 plates numbered 2 - 8; Parts II - X: title to each part + 9 plates numbered 1 - 9; Menagerie: title + 12 plates: I, 1 - 9; II, 1 - 3. 2 works in 1 vol. Oblong folio. (515 x 336 mm). Engraved title in French and German (French text in italic, German text in Gothic blackletter), leaf with engraved dedication to Eugene, engraved frontispiece Sedelmayr, additional engraved title to each part (all in French and German as previously) and 89 engraved plates after Kleiner by various engravers (see below), of which ten are large folding plates, several on two sheets; engraved title for 'Representation des Animaux de la Menagerie' in German and French and 12 engraved plates in two parts. Full eighteenth century calf, banded spine with elaborate gilt tooling and red morocco label with gilt title in seven compartments, marbled pastedowns, red speckled edges.
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