Paris, taken from the Pont-Neuf

by Augustus Charles Pugin

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine architectural view of Paris and the river Seine, looking north-west and enlivened by much period detail of everyday life. Hand-coloured aquatint engraving by T. Sutherland after Pugin. This view from the Pont Neuf, which cuts across the tail of the Ile de la Cité, presents a spectacular panorama of the city up-stream from Notre Dame: to the right is the Louvre with trees of the Tuileries gardens just visible beyond, of the two bridges, one is a foot-bridge

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