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![[Achilles and the daughters of King Lykodemes looking at the gifts sent by Ulysses.]](jpegs/11517.jpg)
[Achilles and the daughters of King Lykodemes looking at the gifts sent by Ulysses.]
Invente et peint par S. le Clerc et grave par E. Jeaurat 1713.
à Paris chez Jeaurat demeurant au bas des fossez St Victor chez Mr. le Brun audit. des Comptes, et chez P. Giffart rue s. Jacques a Ste Therese C.P.R.
Copper Engraving, 370 x 445mm. 14½ x 17½".
A scene from Greek mythology. While the women are looking at the jewels, Achilles (centre right) holds a sword and shield and admires the helmet held by a slave on the right. Six lines of French text below image. Engraved and published in Paris by Edmé Jeaurat (1688 - 1738), who married the sister of the painter of this picture Sébastien Leclerc II (1676 - 1763).
[Ref: 11517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
Invente et peint par S. le Clerc et grave par E. Jeaurat 1713.
à Paris chez Jeaurat demeurant au bas des fossez St Victor chez Mr. le Brun audit. des Comptes, et chez P. Giffart rue s. Jacques a Ste Therese C.P.R.
Copper Engraving, 370 x 445mm. 14½ x 17½".
A scene from Greek mythology. While the women are looking at the jewels, Achilles (centre right) holds a sword and shield and admires the helmet held by a slave on the right. Six lines of French text below image. Engraved and published in Paris by Edmé Jeaurat (1688 - 1738), who married the sister of the painter of this picture Sébastien Leclerc II (1676 - 1763).
[Ref: 11517] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
![[Povr La Magnanimite Dans La Piece De La Element DV FEV] Splendet. Et Ascendit.](jpegs/57329.jpg)
[Povr La Magnanimite Dans La Piece De La Element DV FEV] Splendet. Et Ascendit. [Vne Fufee Volante...]
[Sebastien Leclerc]
[Paris: C, Blageart, 1668.]
Proof engraving, plate 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"), with small margins. Blue ink Collector's stamp on reverse. Some creasing.
Device for the tapestry "Allegory of Fire" from "Devices pour les tapisseries du roy: ou sout representez les quatre elemens et les quatre seasons de l'annee." A view of a rocket shooting off into the sky surrounded by an oval frame adorned with guns, firewood, coals, cannon balls and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia. A flaming creature also resides at the top of the frame.
[Ref: 57329] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[Sebastien Leclerc]
[Paris: C, Blageart, 1668.]
Proof engraving, plate 185 x 175mm (7¼ x 7"), with small margins. Blue ink Collector's stamp on reverse. Some creasing.
Device for the tapestry "Allegory of Fire" from "Devices pour les tapisseries du roy: ou sout representez les quatre elemens et les quatre seasons de l'annee." A view of a rocket shooting off into the sky surrounded by an oval frame adorned with guns, firewood, coals, cannon balls and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia. A flaming creature also resides at the top of the frame.
[Ref: 57329] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
![[Headpiece?: animal dissection a the Acade´mie des sciences, Paris.]](jpegs/27669.jpg)
[Headpiece?: animal dissection a the Acade´mie des sciences, Paris.]
Le Clerc in. et fecit.
[Paris: Imprimerie royale?, n.d., c.1670s.]
Etching, illustration to a book, sheet/etched frame 100 x 245mm, 4 x 9¾". A fragment, with French letterpress to verso, rare. No margin outside border; staining upper right.
A wolf or fox's(?) internal organs are examined around a table by scientists; some consult charts and open books. Other learned figures conversing in groups behind, human and animal skeletons and skulls against the far wall. Possibly for Claude Perrault's 'Me´moires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des animaux', the first important work on comparative anatomy. The frontispiece represents a meeting of the Acade´mie des sciences. The head and tail-pieces, plates and decorations were engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714). Le Clerc was a printmaker, draughtsman and military engineer who entered the Académie in 1672 and was later appointed professor of geometry and perspective.
See Natural History Museum Zoology Library SHELVES 1 ff A.
[Ref: 27669] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Le Clerc in. et fecit.
[Paris: Imprimerie royale?, n.d., c.1670s.]
Etching, illustration to a book, sheet/etched frame 100 x 245mm, 4 x 9¾". A fragment, with French letterpress to verso, rare. No margin outside border; staining upper right.
A wolf or fox's(?) internal organs are examined around a table by scientists; some consult charts and open books. Other learned figures conversing in groups behind, human and animal skeletons and skulls against the far wall. Possibly for Claude Perrault's 'Me´moires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des animaux', the first important work on comparative anatomy. The frontispiece represents a meeting of the Acade´mie des sciences. The head and tail-pieces, plates and decorations were engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714). Le Clerc was a printmaker, draughtsman and military engineer who entered the Académie in 1672 and was later appointed professor of geometry and perspective.
See Natural History Museum Zoology Library SHELVES 1 ff A.
[Ref: 27669] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
La Battaille d'Arsan.
Sebiastian le Clerk del. Johana Sibilla Kräusin fecit.
Jeremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 220 x 170mm, 8¾ x 6¾". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A battle scene and several town plans within a military-themed, frame-line border, relating to the military adventures of Charles of Lorraine during the Turkish invasion of Austria in 1683.
[Ref: 14067] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Sebiastian le Clerk del. Johana Sibilla Kräusin fecit.
Jeremias Wolff excud. Aug. Vind. [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet 220 x 170mm, 8¾ x 6¾". Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A battle scene and several town plans within a military-themed, frame-line border, relating to the military adventures of Charles of Lorraine during the Turkish invasion of Austria in 1683.
[Ref: 14067] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Le Siege de Bude.
Sebastian le Clerc del. Johanna Sibilla Krausin fecit.
Jeremias Wolff excud. aug. Vind. [n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving and etching with large margins. Paper watermarked. Plate 216 x 166mm (8½ x 6½"). Some creasing and little tears around edges of margins.
Siege of Buda (1686): Buda (now the part of Budapest on the Western bank of the Danube) is being bombarded. In the foreground on the right-hand side, a detail of a military canteen; the border is illustrated with five cartouches depicting the views of towns; from left to right above the main image: Seguedin, Simontorna and Cinq Eglises; below, from left to right: Caposwar and Siclos; above Simontorna, a medallion bearing the monograph of Charles V, surrounded by trophies of war. From "Die rühmlichen Taten Carls V. von Lothringen". The Battle of Buda (1686) was fought between the Holy League and Ottoman Turkey, as part of the follow-up campaign in Hungary after the Battle of Vienna. The Holy League took Buda after a long siege.
[Ref: 28686] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Sebastian le Clerc del. Johanna Sibilla Krausin fecit.
Jeremias Wolff excud. aug. Vind. [n.d. c.1710.]
Engraving and etching with large margins. Paper watermarked. Plate 216 x 166mm (8½ x 6½"). Some creasing and little tears around edges of margins.
Siege of Buda (1686): Buda (now the part of Budapest on the Western bank of the Danube) is being bombarded. In the foreground on the right-hand side, a detail of a military canteen; the border is illustrated with five cartouches depicting the views of towns; from left to right above the main image: Seguedin, Simontorna and Cinq Eglises; below, from left to right: Caposwar and Siclos; above Simontorna, a medallion bearing the monograph of Charles V, surrounded by trophies of war. From "Die rühmlichen Taten Carls V. von Lothringen". The Battle of Buda (1686) was fought between the Holy League and Ottoman Turkey, as part of the follow-up campaign in Hungary after the Battle of Vienna. The Holy League took Buda after a long siege.
[Ref: 28686] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
![[Frontis to 'Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature...'].](jpegs/58173.jpg)
[Frontis to 'Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature...'].
Le Clerc pinxt. A.Bell Prin Wal. Sculptor Auxit et exornavit.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 350mm. 8¾ x 13¾". Trimmed within plate. Creasing.
Figures engaged busily in feats of human endeavour, emblematic of science, art, painting, anatomy, medicine, music, geometry, history, figure sculpture, architecture, a magic lantern in the left foreground. In the background there is Moses with the Ten Commandments, the pyramids, and Adam and Eve with animals. Overhead is a balloon with gondola oars and two people. An amalgamation of a 1698 engraving by Sébastien Le Clerc 'L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts' and some religious imagery. Frontis for an edition of Matthew Flinders's (1774-1814) 'Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature...'
See BL 001571943.
[Ref: 58173] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Le Clerc pinxt. A.Bell Prin Wal. Sculptor Auxit et exornavit.
[n.d., c.1797.]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 350mm. 8¾ x 13¾". Trimmed within plate. Creasing.
Figures engaged busily in feats of human endeavour, emblematic of science, art, painting, anatomy, medicine, music, geometry, history, figure sculpture, architecture, a magic lantern in the left foreground. In the background there is Moses with the Ten Commandments, the pyramids, and Adam and Eve with animals. Overhead is a balloon with gondola oars and two people. An amalgamation of a 1698 engraving by Sébastien Le Clerc 'L'Académie des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts' and some religious imagery. Frontis for an edition of Matthew Flinders's (1774-1814) 'Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature...'
See BL 001571943.
[Ref: 58173] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
A New Drawing-Book, very Necessary for ye Practice of all young Beginners, in the Arts of Painting, Drawing, Engraving &c. Invented & Drawn, by that Eminent French artist, Seb le Clerc
J. Clark sculp 1721 Price 1 shilling
Eighteen etchings over six sheets in original wrappers, bound with incomplete set of etchings in same format, 'Figures from Callot and others', in ink on wrapper "Book of Figures etc (signed) Serrell"; 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8") very large margins.
Set of figure studies, designed for amateurs to study, after Sébastien le Clerc, the Elder (1637-1714). Le Clerc was a prolific engraver and draughtsman who succeeded Claude Mellan as engraver to the king of France, working in a style derived from Jacques Callot. Bound with another, incomplete set of figure studies after Callot and others, including two circus subjects. One of these bears the legend 'June 1727 the Italian Flyer, Flew so from ye top pf ye steeple of St Martins Church into the Meuse, ye Torches he used when he Flew from ye upper Gallery to ye emd of ye Stage'!
Ex collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 41047] £390.00 view all images for this item
J. Clark sculp 1721 Price 1 shilling
Eighteen etchings over six sheets in original wrappers, bound with incomplete set of etchings in same format, 'Figures from Callot and others', in ink on wrapper "Book of Figures etc (signed) Serrell"; 285 x 200mm (11¼ x 8") very large margins.
Set of figure studies, designed for amateurs to study, after Sébastien le Clerc, the Elder (1637-1714). Le Clerc was a prolific engraver and draughtsman who succeeded Claude Mellan as engraver to the king of France, working in a style derived from Jacques Callot. Bound with another, incomplete set of figure studies after Callot and others, including two circus subjects. One of these bears the legend 'June 1727 the Italian Flyer, Flew so from ye top pf ye steeple of St Martins Church into the Meuse, ye Torches he used when he Flew from ye upper Gallery to ye emd of ye Stage'!
Ex collection of the Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd
[Ref: 41047] £390.00 view all images for this item
![[The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots]](jpegs/40463.jpg)
[The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlots]
[After Sébastien Leclerc II, c.1760s]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 305 x 425mm (12 x 16¾"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge; creases.
A young gentleman dining with three women, one of whom he embraces. On the left an old woman, unnoticed, gathers coins left on a gaming table. Anonymous continental copy of a plate from a set of six depicting the parable of the prodigal son, engraved by Richard Purcell after Sébastien Leclerc II. There also exists a contemporary British copy of the print (in reverse), titled 'Women & Wine'.
[Ref: 40463] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
[After Sébastien Leclerc II, c.1760s]
Rare mezzotint, sheet 305 x 425mm (12 x 16¾"). Trimmed inside platemark lower edge; creases.
A young gentleman dining with three women, one of whom he embraces. On the left an old woman, unnoticed, gathers coins left on a gaming table. Anonymous continental copy of a plate from a set of six depicting the parable of the prodigal son, engraved by Richard Purcell after Sébastien Leclerc II. There also exists a contemporary British copy of the print (in reverse), titled 'Women & Wine'.
[Ref: 40463] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Le Dessein.
A. Le Clerc, pinx. E. Jeaurat Sculp.
1734. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8¾ x 10) Thread margins. Trimmed within plate slightly at bottom. Paper border glued to top margin and within plate.
A woman points to a sketch seemingly to teach the two young boys with her. A very attractive image.
[Ref: 58571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
A. Le Clerc, pinx. E. Jeaurat Sculp.
1734. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 255mm (8¾ x 10) Thread margins. Trimmed within plate slightly at bottom. Paper border glued to top margin and within plate.
A woman points to a sketch seemingly to teach the two young boys with her. A very attractive image.
[Ref: 58571] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)