Carpentry - A water-mill, used for pulling boats through a lock - Jacques-Raymond Lucotte / Bertrand Defehrt - C 1773

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Charpente, machine a remonter les bateau. ; Architect & Encyclopedist: Jacques-Raymond Lucotte; Engraver: Defehrt - plate number: Pl.XXXII

Jacques-Raymond Lucotte was an 18th-century French architect and encyclopedist.

His known activities suggest that he was born before 1745 and died after 1789.

A former student of the Académie royale d'architecture, Lucotte wrote the articles "maçonnerie", "marbrier", "marqueterie", "menuiserie", "mosaïque (art. méchaniques)", "plomberie", "pont, des machines", "fleuriste", "formier", "tourbissure", "ganterie" and "serrurerie" in the volumes IX to XVII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. He also provided more than 45 comments and over 650 drawings to the plate volumes.

Lucotte left two works:

le Vignole moderne, ou Traité élémentaire d’architecture (3 vol., Paris, 1772–1784)

l’Art de la maçonnerie (Paris, 1783)

Bertrand Defehrt or A J Defehrt - AKA - J. A. de Fehrt, J. A. Defehrt - c. 1723-1774 - individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; Male

Engraver and draughtsman, specialising in book illustrations; worked much for Diderot's Encyclopédie. Departed in 1769 for Copenhagen and died in Denmark. The entry in Saur gives the following alternative names: A J de Fehrt, Bertrand de Fehrt, Carl de Fehr, Charles de Fehr.

Engraving in very good condition for its age. Plate has various water marks, some foxing. Small tear in border bottom right corner. Pricing & Grading commensurate.

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Charpente, machine a remonter les bateau. ; Architect & Encyclopedist: Jacques-Raymond Lucotte; Engraver: Defehrt - plate number: Pl.XXXII

Jacques-Raymond Lucotte was an 18th-century French architect and encyclopedist.

His known activities suggest that he was born before 1745 and died after 1789.

A former student of the Académie royale d'architecture, Lucotte wrote the articles "maçonnerie", "marbrier", "marqueterie", "menuiserie", "mosaïque (art. méchaniques)", "plomberie", "pont, des machines", "fleuriste", "formier", "tourbissure", "ganterie" and "serrurerie" in the volumes IX to XVII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. He also provided more than 45 comments and over 650 drawings to the plate volumes.

Lucotte left two works:

le Vignole moderne, ou Traité élémentaire d’architecture (3 vol., Paris, 1772–1784)

l’Art de la maçonnerie (Paris, 1783)

Bertrand Defehrt or A J Defehrt - AKA - J. A. de Fehrt, J. A. Defehrt - c. 1723-1774 - individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; Male

Engraver and draughtsman, specialising in book illustrations; worked much for Diderot's Encyclopédie. Departed in 1769 for Copenhagen and died in Denmark. The entry in Saur gives the following alternative names: A J de Fehrt, Bertrand de Fehrt, Carl de Fehr, Charles de Fehr.

Engraving in very good condition for its age. Plate has various water marks, some foxing. Small tear in border bottom right corner. Pricing & Grading commensurate.

Charpente, machine a remonter les bateau. ; Architect & Encyclopedist: Jacques-Raymond Lucotte; Engraver: Defehrt - plate number: Pl.XXXII

Jacques-Raymond Lucotte was an 18th-century French architect and encyclopedist.

His known activities suggest that he was born before 1745 and died after 1789.

A former student of the Académie royale d'architecture, Lucotte wrote the articles "maçonnerie", "marbrier", "marqueterie", "menuiserie", "mosaïque (art. méchaniques)", "plomberie", "pont, des machines", "fleuriste", "formier", "tourbissure", "ganterie" and "serrurerie" in the volumes IX to XVII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. He also provided more than 45 comments and over 650 drawings to the plate volumes.

Lucotte left two works:

le Vignole moderne, ou Traité élémentaire d’architecture (3 vol., Paris, 1772–1784)

l’Art de la maçonnerie (Paris, 1783)

Bertrand Defehrt or A J Defehrt - AKA - J. A. de Fehrt, J. A. Defehrt - c. 1723-1774 - individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; Male

Engraver and draughtsman, specialising in book illustrations; worked much for Diderot's Encyclopédie. Departed in 1769 for Copenhagen and died in Denmark. The entry in Saur gives the following alternative names: A J de Fehrt, Bertrand de Fehrt, Carl de Fehr, Charles de Fehr.

Engraving in very good condition for its age. Plate has various water marks, some foxing. Small tear in border bottom right corner. Pricing & Grading commensurate.

Code : A437

Cartographer : Cartographer / Engraver / Publisher: Jacques-Raymond Lucotte

Date : Publication Place / Date - 1733-1804

Size : Sheet size: approx 32.6 x 42.5 Cm 

Availability : Available

Type - Genuine - Antique 

Grading A-

Where Applicable - Folds as issued. Light box photo shows the folio leaf centre margin hinge ‘glue’, this is not visible otherwise.

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