A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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[Erigone] Un pareil vétement pour voiler tant de charmes / A d'austeres censeurs paroist un peu léger [...]
Peint par N. Monsiau Gravé par L.J. Cathelin Graveur du Roi
AParis chez Bance le jeune Rue Severin No 115 C.D.M.
Engraving, platemark 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Very slight foxing.
Erigone, daughter of Icarius of Athens, who hanged herself over her father's grave after he was killed by Dionysus's shepherds. According to Ovid, Dionysus assumed the shape of a cluster of grapes to approach and seduce her (which the text here alludes to). After a painting by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754/5-1837), painter who made book illustrations from Ovid and other authors following the slump in commissions brought about by the Revolution, and later received an important commission from Napoleon, 'the Comitia at Lyon, 26 January 1802' (Versailles, Château).
[Ref: 40284] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par N. Monsiau Gravé par L.J. Cathelin Graveur du Roi
AParis chez Bance le jeune Rue Severin No 115 C.D.M.
Engraving, platemark 340 x 240mm (13¼ x 9½"). Very slight foxing.
Erigone, daughter of Icarius of Athens, who hanged herself over her father's grave after he was killed by Dionysus's shepherds. According to Ovid, Dionysus assumed the shape of a cluster of grapes to approach and seduce her (which the text here alludes to). After a painting by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1754/5-1837), painter who made book illustrations from Ovid and other authors following the slump in commissions brought about by the Revolution, and later received an important commission from Napoleon, 'the Comitia at Lyon, 26 January 1802' (Versailles, Château).
[Ref: 40284] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)
Pierre Jeliote.
Peint par L. Toqué. Gravé par L. J. Cathelin.
A Paris chés l'Auteur Quay de l'Ecole dans l'Allée entre les deux Cafés.
Fine engraving. Sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on card on left side at corners.
Half-length portrait of Pierre Jélyotte (1713-97), shown as Apollo playing a lyre. Regarded as the best singer Europe, he often sang for Louis XV and, after retiring from singing, joined first the 'Orchestre du Roi' as a violinist and guitarist, then the private orchestra of Madame de Pompadour as a cellist. Louis Tocqué's oil on canvas of 1755 is now in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 54290] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par L. Toqué. Gravé par L. J. Cathelin.
A Paris chés l'Auteur Quay de l'Ecole dans l'Allée entre les deux Cafés.
Fine engraving. Sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on card on left side at corners.
Half-length portrait of Pierre Jélyotte (1713-97), shown as Apollo playing a lyre. Regarded as the best singer Europe, he often sang for Louis XV and, after retiring from singing, joined first the 'Orchestre du Roi' as a violinist and guitarist, then the private orchestra of Madame de Pompadour as a cellist. Louis Tocqué's oil on canvas of 1755 is now in the Hermitage Museum.
[Ref: 54290] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Langle.
Dessine par Duche-de Vancy. Gravé par Cathelin. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22".
La Perouse's officers among the inhabitants of 'Langle Bay', which was named after La Perouse's second-in-command, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, who was killed on Samoa, December 1787. The site is probably Tomari Bay, Sakhalin. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked here at Petropavlovsk and spent a year crossing Russia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18691] £520.00
Dessine par Duche-de Vancy. Gravé par Cathelin. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22".
La Perouse's officers among the inhabitants of 'Langle Bay', which was named after La Perouse's second-in-command, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, who was killed on Samoa, December 1787. The site is probably Tomari Bay, Sakhalin. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked here at Petropavlovsk and spent a year crossing Russia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18691] £520.00