From Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur / ILAB, Den Haag, Netherlands
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AbeBooks Seller since October 15, 2014
About this Item
Architectural frame with the title in French, flanked by the personifications of Poetry and Painting. The second personification wears a cloth on her mouth. This refers to Horace's Ut pictura poesis (Poetry is like painting). The frame is crowned with a cartouche with Cupid. Under the frame, a cartouche with another personification with a tower-shaped crown, possibly Cybele. This cartouche is flanked by Death as a skeleton and an old man who has just awakened.Signed ad dated at bottom left: B. Picart invenit 1732.Frontispiece - bookillustration - frontispice - boekillustratie Etching and engraving on paper; total: 476 x 338 mm; mounted on cardboard passepartout. Some rubbing and small damages on the outer margins, otherwise in very good condition. Seller Inventory # PR120975
Bibliographic Details
Title: Antique title page | Le Temple des Muses, ...
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