Notebook A6 . Paris monuments . 1812

Notebook, size 10,5 X 14,8 cm – 30 ivory paper pages. Bound in accordance with a traditional process. The sheets are sewn together by hand with a Singer machine with green thread. Different front and back.

Created around 1812 by the Dufour workshop, the design on this notebook is taken from the panoramic wallpaper "Paris Monuments". On the front : "Les Invalides" and the church "Saint-Germain-des-Prés". On the back clouds from a wallpaper dated 1815.

Collection of Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris               
Photographic credit: Les Arts Décoratifs/ Jean Tholance