Chantier de Construction de Vaisseaux.Marines et suite des Galères ou sont representez samblables sujets de Vaisseaux. Présenté à Monseigneur de Phélypeaux chevalier Comte de Maurepas...
I. Rigaud Invenit et Sculpcit.
A Paris chez le Sr. du Change, Graveur du Roy, rüe St. Jacques et chez l'auteur vis à vis dans la même rüe [n.d., originally c.1720s]. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching, a later impression on watermarked wove paper
An interesting and busy scene of shipbuilding in the port of Toulon, southern France. Carpenters, joiners etc. at work in foreground; a hull under construction in dry-dock beyond to right, close to a cauldron of smoking tar. A ship under sail in the harbour in background to right. From a set of six marine subjects by Jacques Rigaud (1681? - 1754).
See BNF FRBNF42336122.
[Ref: 25147] £130.00
A Paris chez le Sr. du Change, Graveur du Roy, rüe St. Jacques et chez l'auteur vis à vis dans la même rüe [n.d., originally c.1720s]. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching, a later impression on watermarked wove paper
An interesting and busy scene of shipbuilding in the port of Toulon, southern France. Carpenters, joiners etc. at work in foreground; a hull under construction in dry-dock beyond to right, close to a cauldron of smoking tar. A ship under sail in the harbour in background to right. From a set of six marine subjects by Jacques Rigaud (1681? - 1754).
See BNF FRBNF42336122.
[Ref: 25147] £130.00