A very fine large, tinted aquatint of the Tuileries Palace before its destruction by fire in the 1871 Paris Commune. The artist is given as John Gendall (1780-1865) who was born in Devon and later employed by Rudolph Ackermann in London. Amongst the works he was involved in were Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar Sauvan’s ‘Picturesque Tour of the Seine’, published in 1821. This aquatint however is not from that book as it is larger in format and with a different worded title. It is however dated the same year 1821. Both Abbey and Tooley refer to 50 larger paper issues of that work at a paper size of 13 x 17 inches. Here the paper is 16.25 x 20.25 inches! The plate is aquatinted by Daniel Havell (1785-1825/6) whose date of death is unclear. Gendall is stated to have married Havell’s widow Maria on 19 January 1824. Refer Abbey (1956) 90; Mackenzie (1988); ODNB; Tooley (1987) 445.