Description des Cérémonies et des Fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le Couronnement de Leurs Majestes Napoléon ... et Josephine 1807

66.0 x 2.0 cm (book measurement (inventory)) | RCIN 1046693

After Charles Percier (1764-1838)

Description des Ceremonies et des Fetes qui ont eu lieu pour le Couronnement de Leurs Majestes Napoleon . . . et Josephine / recueil des decorations . . . de C. Percier et P. F. L. Fontaine 1807

Description

George acquired this magnificent record of the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine as Emperor and Empress for his library at Carlton House.

Purchased after 1807

Provenance

Acquired by George IV, after 1807
People involved

Creator(s)

After
Search the collection Charles Percier (1764-1838)
(illustrator)

After
Search the collection Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853)
(illustrator)

Search the collection Paris : Le Blanc
(publisher)

Search the collection Paris : Tessier
(bookseller)

Acquirer(s)

Search the collection View the person page George IV, King of the United Kingdom (1762-1830)

Subject(s)

Search the collection Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821)

Search the collection Empress Josephine of the French (1763-1814)
Physical properties

Measurements

66.0 x 2.0 cm (book measurement (inventory))

68.5 x 50.2 x 2.8 cm (book measurement (conservation))
Groupings
Category
Books
Object type(s)
printed & manuscript material
books
book: quarter leather bound
book: quarter leather bound in morocco
book: quarter leather bound in red morocco
book: quarter leather bound in burgundy morocco
Subject(s)
Social sciences
Ethnology
Public life
Coronations
References

Alternative title(s)

Description des Cérémonies et des Fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le Couronnement de Leurs Majestes Napoléon ... et Josephine / recueil des decorations ... de C. Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine.