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Architectural Elements

Various architectural elements, including a column, a set of doors, a panel sculpture, and an ornamental clasp. Graphite inscriptions across the plate indicate that these designs were part of a project for the Palais Royal. The plate is signed and numbered.

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Architectural Elements

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Architectural Elements, France

Vertical sheet illustrating five sketches of buildings or architectural features. The top half of the sheet consists of two cupolas, each has a composition of columns supporting a small domical roof. The roof of the cupola at left is like curved mansard with a flat panel at the top and a tall, narrrow finial above. The one at right has an ogee-curved roof with finial and small weathervane. Below t

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Architectural Elements, Poissy

Vertical sheet illustrating architectural features from the town of Poissy. At left is a Gothic tower over the crossing of the church of Collegiale Notre-Dame. It is in an early Gothic style, heavy with masonry. The tower rises behind the semicircular apse at the lower level, with an octagonal cupola above. The cupola has double round-arched openings at the carndinal points, and single arches at t

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Architectural Fantasy

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Architectural Fantasy with Figures Bathing

15 x 8.5 cm (5 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.)

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Architectural Fantasy with Fountain

15 x 7 cm (5 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

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Architectural Fantasy with Fountain and Obelisk

Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)

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Architectural Fantasy with Tomb and Ruins, Plate from "Rovine Inventione de Giovan. Loren, Legeay Architet. Intagliate da lui stesso in Luce 1768"

2 pp

Architectural fantasy. A number of architectural elements scattered across a hilly landscape. In the foreground, at left, is a large scale tomb. A female figure stands in front of the entrance. Next to the altar, at the center, is a pedestal with a statue of Sphinx. Behind it, is an obelisk. To the right of the pedestal, in the foreground, is a semi-circular structure, possibly a fountain. There a

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Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid

2 pp

In the foreground are ruins of a classical temple - a broken column and a pedestal. Stairs lead up to a sepulchral monument and to an altar where a sacrifice is being conducted. In the distance are two free-standing monumental columns as well as a truncated pyramid crowned by a circular temple. The sheet is enlarged at the bottom and slightly laterally by an L.L. who signed the original drawing.

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Architectural Fantasy: A Courtyard

Horizontal rectangle. A palace courtyard, bounded by a two-storied building at the rght and an open colonnade in the background. At the left is a fountain showing a basin held aloft by standing figures. Ruined masonry in the left foreground. A tomb at the extreme right. Figures introduced into the scene.

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Architectural Fantasy: Bridge and Monuments

In this architectural fantasy, an arched bridge ornamented with a sculptural monument transitions into a grandiose palace, to the left. The palace, viewed from an oblique angle, has twin porticos. In the background, a domed and colonnaded building is visible in the distance. Through the arch of the bridge appear steps, another monument, and number small-scale figures.

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