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
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