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La Forest Dangereuse. Gravée d'aprés le Tableau original de Philipe Wowermans, haut de vingt et un Poulees sur trente et un de la large.
Ph. Wowermans Pinx. C.E. Cousinet Sculp.
A Paris, chez Lempereur, Graveur du Roy, rue et Porte St Jacques, audessus du petit Marché. [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving. 335 x 400mm (13¼ x 15¾"). Very large margins.
A snowy landscape on the edge of a forest, with bandits attacking and robbing travellers. In the background is a gibbet with a body hanging. The engraver Cousinet is actually Catherine Elizabeth Lempereur, wife of Louis Simon Lemperer the publisher of this print.
[Ref: 38116] £290.00
(£348.00 incl.VAT)
[Hercules stood before the city of Mons] On voit dans cette Médaile Hercule debout. Il s'appuye d'une main sur sa massue [...]
C. Eisen inv. L. Lempereur [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 125 x 160mm (5 x 6¼"). Thread margins; glued to album sheet at corners. Slight foxing.
Allegorical scene referring to the siege of Mons (present-day Belgium) in 1691, during which Louis XIV's army stormed the city after a nine-month siege. After a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established.
[Ref: 44934] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
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