Apollon, conseille à Melpone et à Thalie, de joindre la pratique à la Theorie, dans l'usage du Theatre [print] / B. Picart delineauit.

Accession number: 
PML 140007, no. 232
Author: 
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published: 
[Amsterdam], 1714.
Description: 
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 136 x 85 mm; plate mark: 146 x 90 mm; sheet: 222 x 147 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Two lines of caption text below image.
Engraving issued as a frontispiece illustration to Hédelin d'Aubignac's La pratique du théâtre (Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1715).

Summary: 

Allegorical scene, with Apollo addressing Melpomene and Thalia, who are standing at left; at right, a kneeling figure drawing a circle on the ground, a bust of Aristophane, and a bust of Horatius.

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