Rare Resource on the Château de Chaumont
Baillargé, Alphonse, and Vte. Joseph Walsh. LES CHÂTEAUX DE BLOIS RESTAURÉ, CHAMBORD, CHAUMONT, AMBOISE ET CHENONCEAUX. Blois: Mme. Prévost, 1852. 16mo, original printed card covers. (2), 47, (1), 96, 44 pages; 3 lithographic plates depicting castles. Light foxing; very good. A rare publication on the Château de Chaumont and other castles of Blois. Chaumont was where Jean-Baptiste Nini created his terra cotta medallions of Franklin and other well-known figures of the day. Cited in the bibliography to Richard Margolis's Benjamin Franklin in Terra Cotta: "Vicomte Joseph Walsh, although not actually naming Nini, stated. 'M. Le Ray ... avait fait venir un artiste distingué; on a de lui, en terre de Chaumont, des médaillons de Fracklin [sic], de Louis XIV et de Marie-Antoinette, encore recherchés aujourd'hui.'"