Apollon [print] / R.B. delin. ; N.B. sculpsit.

Accession number: 
PML 5639.23
Author: 
Bonnart, Nicolas, 1637-1718, engraver, publisher.
Published: 
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle, [169-].
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 235 x 180 mm; plate mark: 278 x 197 mm; sheet: 318 x 227 mm
Notes: 

Title from item.
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Par ma Lyre et ma voix, j'attire tous les coeurs... De chanter des heros les vertus et la gloire.
Item no. 23 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm

Summary: 

Print shows Apollo, sitting with his arm resting on a lyre; in the background at left, Pegasus is shown on a hilltop (Mt. Helicon?), with a spring gushing forth from beneath his hooves.

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