View of Paris seen from Montmartre, 1800s

View of Paris, France, seen from Montmartre. Les Tuileries 1, Le Louvre museum 2, le Dome des Invalides 3, the Pantheon 4, and Notre-Dame Cathedral 5. In the foreground, miners of gypsum plaster in a quarry. Vue de dessus la hauteur de Montmartre. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1, 200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc. published from 1790-1830

1813 Bilderbuch Fur Kinder Carl Bertuch Encyclopedia Engraved Plates Friedrich Johann Bertuch Gypsum Louvre Montmartre Natural History Pantheon Picture Book For Children Plaster Quarry

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