Author: Jan Caspar Philips (1680/1700-1775)
Title: [Antique print, etching, ets] J.C. Philips, Het Koninklyk Paleis van Versailles, van voren, van het plein te zien, published 1756.
Description: View of the Palace of Versailles from the front gate.Used as illustration in Thomas Salmon's: Hedendaagsche historie, of Tegenwoordige staat van Frankryk, published in Amsterdam by Isaak Tirion in 1756.Signed and dated on the bottom right corner: J.C. Philips fec. 1756. Etching on paper with margins; plate mark: 175 x 293 mm; total: 215 x 317 mm; vertical creases due to folding, a light stain in the sky to the right, some light damages along the margins, otherwise in great condition.

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