Bound Print, Dessein de l’illumination et du feu d’artifice donné à Monseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e septembre 1735 (Design of the Illumination and Fireworks dedicated to His Grace the Dauphin at Meudon, September 3rd, 1735)

This is a Bound print. It was designed by Michel de Bonneval and published by Menus-Plaisirs du Roi and engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin the younger. It is dated 1756 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

61.1 × 91.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 in.)

It is signed

Signed in plate, lower left : Debonneval Invenit. ; lower right : C.N. Cochin filius delineavit et Sculpsit

It is inscribed

Printed in plate, lower center : DESSEIN DE L’ILLUMINATION ET DU FEU D’ARTIFICE DONNÉ A MONSEIGNEUR LE DAUPHIN / A MEUDON LE 3E. SEPTEMBRE 1735. / Cette feste ordonnée par M. Le Duc De Gesvres Pair de France, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roy, à esté conduite par / M. Debonneval Intendant et Controlleur general de L’argenterie, Menus plaisirs et affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté.

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