[Alchemist] Die Arsnen [?] Kunst. La Pharmacie.
Jacob Wangner Sculp. Inventé et peint par J. La Jouë. [Augsburg c.1740.] Scarce engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate at bottom with loss of imprint. The interior of an apothecary's workshop, with an oven, stills, books and animals hanging from the ceiling. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 63128] £680.00
Die Music. La Musique.
Jacob Wangner Sculp. [after Jacques de Lajoue]. [Augsburg c.1740.] Engraving. Sheet 285 x 355mm (11¼ x 14"). Trimmed within plate, tear with loss reinstated with mss. at top. Musicians on a baroque balcony. This is a German edition of one of a series of allegorical prints of the arts and sciences after Jacques de Lajoue (1686 - 1761), a French decorative rococo painter, engraved by Charles Nicolas Cochin and published by the verve Chéreau in Paris during the 1730s.
[Ref: 51292] £240.00
(£288.00 incl.VAT)