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[France] Thomas Sonnet Sieur de Courval Docteur en Medecine.
[France] Thomas Sonnet Sieur de Courval Docteur en Medecine. Agé de 33 ans 1610.
L. Gaultier Sculp.
Very scarce & fine engraving. Plate: 75 x 130mm (3 x 5"). Some staining and paper tone.
A portrait set in an oval of French poet and satirist Thomas Courval (1577-1627), the frontispiece to his work 'Satyre contre les charlatans et pseudomedecins empirique, 1610, which discussed the tricks used by quacks in 17th Century France.
[Ref: 37167]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[France] Pierre de Besse Docteur en Theologie. Aetat 50. 1618.
[France] Pierre de Besse Docteur en Theologie. Aetat 50. 1618. Si le burin eust peu, en gravant ce visage Representer au vray l'Ame de ses escrits; Tout le Monde diroit admirant cet ouvrage Heureux le Limosin qui à de tels esprits.
L. Gaultier incidit.
[n.d. c.1620.]
Engraving, with small margins. Plate 152 x 102mm. 6 x 4".
Pierre de Besse (1567-1639) was a Theologian and predicator.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25344]   £45.00   (£54.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sistine Chapel - The Last Judgement]
[Sistine Chapel - The Last Judgement]
Leonardus Gaultier fecit.
[n.d., c.1600-35]
Etching, 313 x 233mm (12¼ x 9¼"). Glued to backing sheet at top corners.
Etching of Michelangelo's 'Last Judgement' in the Sistine Chapel, with a portrait of Michelangelo in a medallion. The first engraving from Michelangelo's fresco was by the Italian Martino Rota (1569), which served as the prototype for several subsequent engravings, including this one.
see 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come' (British Museum catalogue) nos. 97-8; for an earlier engraving of the fresco see ref. 25977
[Ref: 26024]   £350.00  
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