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Almanach iconologique: Les vertus et les vices (volume XVI)

published 1779

Various Artists

Artist

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Artist After, French, 1715 - 1790

Various Artists after Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Attributed to

Medium

1 vol: ill: 13 etchings and engravings on laid paper
Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

page size: 11.2 x 6.6 cm (4 7/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Accession Number

1988.59.16

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Title Page

French 18th Century

1779

La magnanimite

Jean Massard

1779

La magnificence

Jacques Aliamet

1779

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

n.d.

Sourget, Patrick and Elisabeth, MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES PRECIEUX, cat.5,no.137.

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.454-456.

Inscriptions

individual prints signed in plate; one signed in plate

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