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Les ruines de Palmyre, autrement dite, Tedmor au désert

Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771, Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713-1770, Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758 · 1753 · A Londres : Chez A. Millar · 17 pictures

Les ruines de Palmyre is an 1753 French-language folio published in London by A. Millar, with plates by Robert Wood and Giovanni Battista Borra, engraved by Paul Fourdrinier, recording the ruins of Palmyra for architects and antiquarians. Its pictures are engraved architectural plates of doorways, pediments, and colonnades, shown in plain outline and shaded line that a designer could use as classical ornament references.

Architecture · Inscriptions, Greek · Inscriptions, Aramaic

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