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La Forest Dangereuse.
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)
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[Hercules stood before the city of Mons]
[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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