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[Loyalty guarding virtue]

[Loyalty guarding virtue]La Vertu sous la garde de la fidelite. Dédié et Présenté a Monsieur de Damery [...]

Inventé et Dessiné par Charles Eisen. Gravé par P.A. Le Beau 1772
Avec Privilege du Roi. AParis chez Henault et Rapilly, rue St Jacques a la Croix de Lorraine/
Engraving, sheet 405 x 290mm (16 x 11½). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A young man's advances frustrated by a vigilant dog. Engraving 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. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
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