[Hotel Desmarests, Paris, ca. 1800: front and rear elevations; pl. 381] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Hotel Desmarests, Paris, ca. 1800: front and rear elevations; pl. 381], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3c/3c16b9a129cc-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of [Hotel Desmarests, Paris, ca. 1800: front and rear elevations; pl. 381]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Hotel Desmarests, Paris, ca. 1800: front and rear elevations; pl. 381]
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Despite its place on a board of taverns and saloons, this engraving shows a Paris townhouse. In eighteenth-century French usage, an *hôtel* was a grand private residence, not a place to lodge travelers. The sheet presents the front and rear elevations of the Hotel Desmarests as plate 381 in a survey of French architecture by Blondel. The caption card dates the print to about 1800, but that date is unverified. Blondel's volumes were largely issued in the mid-eighteenth century, so the print may record an older building or reflect a later printing.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: J.F. Blondel, Architecture francaise. Reference copy may be in SSF - Architecture. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Arch.; Hotels; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,072 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142074 |
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