Voyage de Lesseps

Artist Pierre-Philippe Choffard (French, 1730-1809)

Publisher Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1790

Author Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, baron de, Lesseps (French, 1766-1834)

Date1790

DimensionsBook: H: 7 7/8 in. (200 mm); W: 5 in. (127 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (32 mm);
Page: H: 7 9/16 in. (192 mm); W: 4 3/4 in. (120 mm)

MediumOriginal prints: engravings (fold-out) and wood-engraved ornaments Text: letterpress Paper: white laid paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Straus Brothers

Object number

1925.36A-B

Not on View

DescriptionSewn gatherings case bound into red morroco bindings with gilt tooling stamped in gold with the arms of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793).

Label TextThese volumes are Lesseps' account of an expedition in Russia, where the author served as the Royal interpreter, from September 1787 to October 1788. As most of Marie Antoinette's library was given to the Biblioeque National (in Paris) or the library at Versailles after her ill-fated death by guillotine, only a fraction of the books once in her possession are in collections outside of France.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Speaking Visual: Learning the Language of Art, Oct. 31, 2014-Jan. 25, 2015.