Details

Subjects:

Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France.
History.

Form/Genre:

Pen and wash drawings.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Headings and a note in French.

Summary:

Diagrams related to industrial production: 2 of large systems of gears and axles and 1 of metal components, anvils, and furnaces perhaps related to forge operations. The diagrams are labeled with plate and figure numbers, have watercolor washes, and are signed L. F. D. 1783.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Separated from manuscript formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 18505 (pencil note on verso of one diagram, Kraus?).
Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978; part of Kraus's ms. 836.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 180.

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

798129769

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page