Accession number:
PML 198162, fol. 25
Published:
Paris : Chez l'auteur ruë Michel le Comte pres l'Echelle du Temple à Paris, [between 1715 and 1723]
Description:
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 284 x 365 mm; sheet: 305 x 382 mm
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Design attributed to Claude Gillot.
Date of publication suggested by the presence of the arms of the French regent above the title at center.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Provenance:
Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.
Summary:
Perpetual calendar illustrated with allegorical figures, including Fortune and Justice, at left, and Strength and Temperance at right; below, France and Religion at left, with attributed symbolizing commerce and the arts and sciences to their right; calendar surmounted by a crown, with the motto "Solatium populi".
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