A complete set of the volumes of 'Monuments des arts de dessin chez les peuples, tant anciens que modernes recueillis par le Baron Denon pour servir à l'histoire des arts', published in 1829 after Denon's death; the folio volumes contained letterpress text and 310 plates, many of which had more than one illustration (as registered by the BM, using a number for each design, the total amounts to 416 numbers). The series gives an account of the development of art across the world in a chronological sequence: parts I and II gives the history of art in ancient times and beyond Europe; parts III and IV give an account of European art from Cimabue to the present. The illustrations are mostly taken from objects in Denon's own collection, and the whole project was organised and financed by himself.
<p><br>The BM set was broken up after acquisition, and the plates scattered under the names of the designers: 
<br>reg.nos.558 to 620 are still bound with the text in book form at Oo.6.18(1)
<br>reg.nos.621 to 973 have been collected together in 2008 and are now housed loose in a box in the album/portfolio store. Some prints are still separately placed under the names of the artist: these have been given individual entries; this entry covers the entire series as published in 1829. Numerous printmakers were employed on the project, including the lithographers Camoins, Franquinet, Gounod, Mauzaisse, and Moitte, but also a few etchings by Denon himself. The prints are after the works of most of the leading artists of the Western tradition. 
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<br>Most of the prints are lithographs, some with tint stones, but some are etchings
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