Designs for a tomb, 1770.

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Designs for a tomb, 1770.

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Two ink drawings, one a front elevation and the other a side section, of a domed cruciform building. A panel above the entrance is inscribed "Ludovico XV regnante... anno 1770 delineavit Angibau," and each drawing is signed and dated "Avril 1770." In a lunette above the door is a cross. The interior contains a seated statue and a relief depicting lamentation. The inscription, sculpture, windowless walls and size of building suggest that it was intended to serve as a tomb for Louis XV, who died in 1774.

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Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774

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A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. An avid researcher and amateur historian, Parsons publis...

Angibau.

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French architect. From the description of Designs for a tomb, 1770. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81456657 ...