print;
album
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.63.1
- Title
- Series: Les Actions glorieuses de S.A.S. Charles Duc de Lorraine
- Description
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Dedication page, with text flanked by a pair of female classical statues holding scientific and mathematical instruments and a book; surmounted by a coat of arms and crown, framed by two birds; below the text, a putto sitting astride plants and mathematical instruments on a pedestal flanked by two grotesque heads. Ornamental frame with shells on top left and right hand corners of the page
Etching
- Production date
- 1704-1729
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a dedication page that prefaces a series of 13 plates in a bound album; copies of a series originally engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc in 1704 (see 1917,1208.70.265 for more information); a series of plates representing and celebrating the military exploits of Charles V Duke of Lorraine; this series of copies is mentioned in Jombert, 'Catalogue Raisonnée de l'oeuvre de S. Le Clerc', Vol. II, p. 230, note 1 and in 'Inventaire du fonds français graveurs du XVIIe siècle', Vol. 8, pp. 204-07; this series reverses the images in the original compilation by Le Clerc and contains only a selection of prints from the original series.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.63.1
