| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 1247 |  | Details | Huquier, Jacques-Gabriel | 1760 |
| Antique optical print view of the Rock of Gibraltar |
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Huquier, Jacques-Gabriel |
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| 1760 |
| LOC:9 |
| $350.00 | Huquier--Jacques-Gabriel | Antique-optical-print-view-of-the-Rock-of-Gibraltar | Lovely vue d'optique or optical print ca. 1760 of the Rock of Gibraltar with the walled city of Gibraltar depicted below. In the foreground ships-of-the-line are shown underway.
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Attribution at bottom reads "A Paris ches Huquier Graveur fils rue St. Jacques, au dessus celle des Mathurins au Gd. St. Remy." Jacques Gabriel Huquier (1725 - 1805) was an engraver and printseller located at Rue St. Jacques in Paris, France. Jacques-Gabriel fils was the son of Gabriel Huquier, also a printseller and engraver who worked from the same address. According to Jeffares, Jacques-Gabriel Huquier made a fortuitous marriage in 1758:
<div class="indenttextblock">"[J.G. Huquier] married Anne-Louise, the daughter of the engraver Jacques Chéreau. She brought a dowry of 10,000 livres, mostly in stock in the business at rue Saint-Jacques, “au Grand Saint-Rémy”, and for the next three years with Huquier fils and Chéreau collaborated as engravers and printsellers." <a href="http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/HUQUIER.pdf" target="_blank">Online source.</a>
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By 1772 Huquier had abandoned his family and emigrated to England. |