Villageois Grec.
[after Nicolas de Nicolay.] [Paris: Mathieu Guillemot, 1650.] Engraving. Sheet 265 x 160mm (10½ x 6¼"). Trimmed to printed border on three sides, into image on right. Small creases left and right corners. A Greek villager playing the bagpipes. From Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s ''L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs'', with plates after woodcuts by Nicolas de Nicolay. See BM 1927,0210.61 for Nicolay's original woodcut.
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