Issuing body:

French & Company (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Artist:

Coypel, Charles-Antoine 1694-1752  Search this

Printer:

Cosmus & Washburn  Search this

Former owner:

National Gallery of Art (U.S.) DSI  Search this

Subject:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616 Don Quixote  Search this

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont) 1837-1913 Art collections  Search this

Physical description:

20 unnumbered leaves, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

France

Date:

1916

Notes:

Edition limited to 100 copies.

Printed on one side of leaf only, title and text within red ruled border.

Cover title within pictorial border.

"Designed and printed by Cosmus & Washburn, N.Y."--Verso of 1st leaf.

Plates are mounted photogravures.

"The originator of the entire series of twenty-eight Don Quixote tapestries was Charles Coypel."

The tapestries are now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, having passed through the ownership of Eleanor Widener Dixon (1891-1953).

SCDIRB copy (39088016469033) is no. 66 and was presented to the National Gallery of Art.

SCDIRB copy has blind-embossed property stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [manuscript accession no.] 239143.

SCDIRB copy in illustrated paper wrappers, deckle edges.

Topic:

Gobelin tapestry  Search this

Tapestry  Search this

Call number:

NK3049.G7 F8 1916

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

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