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Portraits des grands hommes : femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France, gravés et imprimés en couleurs...

Title: Portraits des grands hommes : femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France, gravés et imprimés en couleurs...
Publication: Paris : Chez Blin, imprimeur en taille-douce, [1792]

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Description

2 l., 192 plates in 3 v.; 34cm.

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Cohen-de Ricci, col. 951-952. Rothschild: Catalogue, IV, 3167. Sander: Die illustrierten französischen Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1832. Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes, Dépt. des: Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, IV, 161-167, no. 6-35.
Originally published in parts.
Some plates dated, many undated. The dates range from 1786 to 1792.
Consists of engraved t.p. and publisher's dedication and 192 engravings in color comprising 96 oval portraits alternated with 96 half-page historical scenes. Both portraits and scenes have engraved text beneath them. The engravings were designed by Sergent (about 138), Desfontaines (about 43), Naigeon, P. Barbier, Bénard, F. Gérard and Duplessis-Berteaux and engraved by Sergent himself (about 47), his wife "Mme de Cernel" (30), J. Morret (about 24), Moret, who may be identical with J. Morret, (about 50), Ridé, L. Roger and Le Coeur.
Binding, contemporary, of three-fourths calf.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1792+

OCLC

131730125

Title

Portraits des grands hommes : femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France, gravés et imprimés en couleurs...

Imprint

Paris : Chez Blin, imprimeur en taille-douce, [1792]

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Blin, Pierre.

Sergent-Marceau, Antoine François, 1751-1847.

Swebach, Jacques François Joseph, called Fontaine, 1769-1823.

Morret, Jean Baptiste.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1792+