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Various Artists after Clément-Pierre Marillier and Nicolas André Monsiaux. Translated by Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy.

La Sainte Bible, 1789-1804

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Medium

12 volumes bound in six with 300 etched and engraved illustrations on thick wove paper (252 after Marillier, 48 after Monsiaux, and one large folding map of the Holy Land by Tardieu.) This is volume 1-2.

Dimensions

book: 30.5 x 24.3 x 7 cm (12 x 9 9/16 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2009.37.2.1

Artists / Makers

Various Artists (artist)

Clément-Pierre Marillier (artist after) French, 1740 - 1808

Nicolas André Monsiaux (artist after) French, 1754 or 1755 - 1837

Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy (translator) French, 1613 - 1684

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Inscription

2nd free endpaper upper left in graphite circled: 1423; bottom lower center: /For / Bech V 3; bottom left: 113/100/482(6)

Provenance

(Musinsky Rare Books, Inc., New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

Bibliography

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 935-936.

1982: Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914. New York, 1982: 47.