1757 Ruins of Baalbek, Roman Architecture, P. Fourdrinier, windows

Large antique copperplate engraving of the Roman ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek which is now in Lebanon.

Engraved by P. Fourdrinier after Giovanni Battista Borra. (27 December 1713 - November 1770) was an Italian architect, engineer and architectural draughtsman.

36.5 x 55 cm

These rare and collectable engravings inspired early 18th architects to build their own Neo-Classical villas.

Paul Fourdrinier, engraver and printseller, was born on 20 December 1698 in Groningen in the Netherlands, the son of Jacques Fourdrinier and his wife, Jeanne Theroude, Huguenot refugees from Dieppe, Normandy.

He was a pupil of Bernard Picart at Amsterdam for six years, and came to England in 1720. He was employed in engraving portraits and book illustrations. (Wikipedia)

Date of this engraving Circa 1757