[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Surface soiling mainly in margins.
A half-length portrait of Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723-89), leaning on a volume of his 'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines (known as the 'Encyclopedia of Yverdon'). Born in Rome, he fled to Switzerland and converted to Protestantism. He translated a number of philosophical works into Italian (including those of Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton), before embarking on his encyclopidia. The 58 volumes, published 1770-80, gave a Protestant counterpoint to the Catholocism of Diderot's encyclopidia.
[Ref: 61363] £85.00
Etching. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Surface soiling mainly in margins.
A half-length portrait of Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723-89), leaning on a volume of his 'Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines (known as the 'Encyclopedia of Yverdon'). Born in Rome, he fled to Switzerland and converted to Protestantism. He translated a number of philosophical works into Italian (including those of Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton), before embarking on his encyclopidia. The 58 volumes, published 1770-80, gave a Protestant counterpoint to the Catholocism of Diderot's encyclopidia.
[Ref: 61363] £85.00