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[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
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