Antique Print-PARQUET FLOOR-DESIGN-ORNAMENT-PLATE 15-Daly-Spiegel-1877

Subject: Plate 16-17: 'L'Architecture Privee au XIXme Siecle. Parallele. De Parquets dans divers Edifices, a Paris. Par M. Pastrat, Parquet.' This plate shows various parquet floor designs from buildings in Paris, France. Double size plate with original middle fold.

Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Scattered light foxing and some brown spots, mainly outside the image. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Colour lithographs on a vellin type paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 63.5 x 45 cm. The image size is ca. 52 x 38 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 25 x 17.7 inch. The image size is ca. 20.5 x 15 inch.

Part Number: 31892

Location: E17-45

Description: This attractive original old antique print / plate originates from: 'L'architecture privee au XIXe siecle. Troisieme serie. Decorations interieures peintes. Deuxiï¿½me volume: Cabinets de travail - Bibliotheque - Acces et dependances - Salles de concert - Magasins - Details divers et paralleles' by M. Cesar Daly. Published in Paris by Librairie Generale de l'Architecture et des travaux Publics - Ducher & Cie, 1877. This work is considered one of Daly's most important publications [see: STURGIS Vol. I, pp. 733-744]. The lithographs are very detailed and delicately well done.

Artists and Engravers: Cesar Daly (1811 - 1894), French architect. Daly's actual professional practice was mainly confined to the restoration of the cathedral of Alby at Tarn. In 1839 he founded the 'Revue generale de l'architecture'. He also spent three years in the Americas, and in 1856 was the first to note several important pre-Columbian ruins. This plate by Spiegel.