Looking for info on a lithograph done by A Amsterdam Chez P. Mortier, titled Veue du Palais Royael?

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It appears that Pierre Mortier was an artist as well as the publisher, Amsterdam being the location. I cannot find your image. Mortier was primarly known for his engravings of maps. My suggestion would be to contact Swanns Auction Galleries as they specialize in prints and will be able to determine whether in fact this was an afterstrike or produced by his own hand and advise you accordingly. Below is more information... I hope that this helps!

Pierre Mortier's grandparents were French refugees, who left France in about 1625 to live in Leiden. His parents settled in Amsterdam in 1661 or 1662. Mortier grew up in Amsterdam but lived in Paris from 1681 to about 1685 where he must have gotten into the book trade. Once he was in Amsterdam again he specialized in French books and maintained his relationships with Parisian publishers. Amsterdam was at this time the international marketplace for books, especially books forbidden by repressive governments. Jean (Johannes) Covens and Corneille (Cornelius) Mortier were brothers-in-law, who carried on the book publishing business established by Pierre Mortier (Dutch, 1661-1711) in Amsterdam in 1685. The elder Mortier died in 1711, his wife contined the firm until she died in 1719. In 1721, Covens and Mortier formed a partnership, Covens having married Agatha Mortier in the same year. Pierre Mortier's house owed much of its success to his access to French publishers and publications in which he collaborated or re-issued. Covens and Mortier contined in this way publishing enlarged editions of Sanson, Jaillot and De L'Isle, as well as some of the later Dutch cartographical masters:De Wit and Allard, and, of course, Pierre Mortier.
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