Roiaume, paroit dans l’Enfoncement; et au Haut, la Renommée tient le Portrait du celebre Auteur de cette Histoire.
Inventé et dessiné par B. Picart, 1713. Gravé par vander Gouwen. [Portrait:] S Thomassin Efigiem delin.
[Histoire d'Angleterre, Rotterdam, 1713.]
Fine copper engraving and etching. Plate 368 x 228mm. 14½ x 9". Crease at left top.
On the left sit History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits are taking books away from Time who is try to devour them. On the right sits London, personified by a crowned woman leaning on a lion. In the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying an oval portrait of Issac de Larrey; in the background, London. Issac de Larrey (1638-1719) was a French historian.
Dimier: 535.
[Ref: 17544] £160.00
[Histoire d'Angleterre, Rotterdam, 1713.]
Fine copper engraving and etching. Plate 368 x 228mm. 14½ x 9". Crease at left top.
On the left sit History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits are taking books away from Time who is try to devour them. On the right sits London, personified by a crowned woman leaning on a lion. In the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying an oval portrait of Issac de Larrey; in the background, London. Issac de Larrey (1638-1719) was a French historian.
Dimier: 535.
[Ref: 17544] £160.00