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Turgot, Michel Etienne. Plan de Paris,( Paris, 1739. Plan de Paris Commence l'Annee 1734... Levé et Desiné par Louis Bretez Gravé par Claude Lucas / Et Écrit par Aubin. A monumental aerial isometric map of the City of Paris in the year 1739. Twenty (and one diagram plate) copperplate engravings with etching.
The plan is technically known as an isometric projection. The condition is excellent, a bright clean set; occasional marginal tears not affecting the image on a few plates reinforced with archival tape. Each panel is approximately 22” high x 33”wide including margins. Overall dimensions are: 8’-10” high x 10’- 8” wide or 106 ” high x 128 “ wide
Original 20 copperplate engravings from 1739, with one isometric diagram Plan de Paris showing the layout for the large twenty panel set.
LES PROMENADES DE PARIS, 1860
Les Promenades de Paris, 1860’s, various artists, printed by Ch. Chardon, Paris.
Urban design by Baron Georgea-Eugene Haussmann. Commissioned by Napolean III. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning, both in the centre of Paris and in the surrounding districts: streets and boulevards, regulations imposed on facades of buildings, public parks, sewers and water works, city facilities and public monuments.
Haussmann’s restructuring of Paris gave its present form; its long straight, wide boulevards with their cafés and shops determined a new type of urban scenario and have had a profound influence on the everyday lives of Parisians. Haussmann’s boulevards established the foundation of what is today the popular representation of the French capital around the world, by cutting through the old Paris of dense and irregular medieval alleyways into a rational city with wide avenues and open spaces which extended outwards far beyond the old city limits.
NOUVEAU PLAN DES VILLE, CHATEAU ET JARDINS DE VERSAILLES
Early 18th century, for Louis XIV, 1714, copperplate engraving of the Plan de Versailles. An excellent example of "figure-ground" depiction with copiously engraved notations. " "A new plan of the town, chateau and gardens of Versailles, drawn up on the spot in 1714, with the route which the king has commanded in order to view the garden, the bosquets and the fountains of the said royal chateau of Versailles."
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