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Set of Nine Charles Paillasson's L'art D'ecrire Plates Framed (1 of 18)
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors
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Set of Nine Charles Paillasson's L'art D'ecrire Plates Framed

REF: LA485866
£1,750
€2,044
$2,201
Certified DealerApproved item2200 sales by dealer
Certified DealerApproved item2200 sales by dealer
Description
Wonderful set of eight plates from Charles Paillasson's L'Art d'Ecrire all individually framed c1763 with Frenchman Aubin engraver. Charles Paillasson's celebrated handwriting manual *L'Art d'Ecrire* was originally published in 1763 as part of Diderot and D'Alembert's *Encyclopédie*, with plates engraved in 1760 . Charles Paillasson was born in 1718, son of the master writer Jean-Jacques Paillasson, who died in 1754 . He was a student of Louis Rossignol , and taught his art in a boarding school in Clamart from 1738 . He was made a master of the Community of Master Writers onNovember 18, 1756. In 1754 he lived in Paris on rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. Anxious to enhance the prestige of calligraphy in France, he was part of several Parisian academies supporting this cause and was among those who offered, in 1763 and 1767 , gifts in calligraphy to Louis XV . In 1767, he was said to be a sworn writer expert and a former professor of the Royal Academy of Writing . In 1776 he was already a writer in the king's cabinet, and in 1780 he was appointed First Secretary of the King 's Cabinet . In 1779, he was a founding member of the Academic Writing Office and was still a member in 1789 , the year of his death. Aubin was active 1740/70 and was a printmaker and lettering engraver Provenance:- The property of a Country House, England from family Flanders, Belgium
measurements
Height:
60 cm
Width:
47 cm
Depth:
2 cm
declaration
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors has clarified that the Set of Nine Charles Paillasson's L'art D'ecrire Plates Framed (LA485866) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1760
condition
Very good condition
additional info
Material:
Date of Manufacture:
c.1760
location
This Set of Nine Charles Paillasson's L'art D'ecrire Plates Framed is located in Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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