ID: 700008810 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008810	Record Type: Movable Work
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De artificiali perspectiva (illustrated book; Illustrated by Jean Pélerin (French, died in 1524), Cut by G...; 1505; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 35.54;)

Note: Folio; 46 leaves. Illustrated book with numerous woodcuts and diagrams. Illustrations of perspectival views of landscapes, buildings, interiors, including figures.

Titles:

De artificiali perspectiva (preferred,C,U,RP,English,L,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

illustrated book [300311820] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>, books, <books by internal form>)

Classifications:

books (preferred)

Creation Date: 1505

Creator Display:

Illustrated by Jean Pélerin (French, died in 1524), Cut by Gabriel Salmon (French, 1513–1532), Cut by Jacquemin Woeiriot (French, 16th century), Printer Pierre Jacobi (French, 16th century) [preferred,VP]

illustrator Pélerin, Jean (French architect, sculptor, 1435/1440-1524) [500058825]

woodcutter Salmon, Gabriel (French painter and engraver, active 1504-1542) [500106847]

woodcutter Woeiriot, Jacquemin (French printmaker, 16th century) [500371696]

printer Jacobi, Pierre (French printer, 16th century) [500371697]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 35.54

Credit Line: Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis

Other: Publication: Toul [7009506] (Geographic)

Display Materials: printing and woodcutting; binding: modern gilt-stamped dark green morocco (Hagué)

	printing (process) [300053319]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>)

	morocco (leather) [300227857]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material, leather, <leather by process>, vegetable-tanned leather, vegetable-tanned goatskin)

	woodcut (process) [300053296]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)

Dimensions: Folio; 46 leaves. Overall: 31.2 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm (12 5/16 x 8 9/16 x 11/16 in.)

General Subject:

didactic and propaganda (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	perspective (technique) [300056340]
	.....(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <perspective and shading techniques>) (AAT)

Provenance: Possible ownership inscription on title, effaced save for inventory number "8293"; Léon de Laborde [?--according to note in hand of Jacques-Charles Brunet mounted on preliminary leaf]; Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876, publisher, printer, author); his sale Paris 29 May 1879, lot 284, to Quaritch; Bernard Quaritch, London (offered in their General Catalogue [London: 1887], nos. 4377 and 37543, for £200; and Monuments of Typography [London: 1897], no. 471, for £105); Comtesse de La Baume-Pluvinel; her sale Paris 24 April 1934, lot 119; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., London, from whom purchased for £400 by MFA, February 7, 1935.

Related Works:

	facsimile is .... De artificiali perspectiva [facsimile] [700008811]
	..........illustrated book; Illustrated by Jean Pélerin (French, died in 1524), Printer ...; 1509; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 36.399;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
De artificiali perspectiva	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)