L'Art de Nager, demontré par figures, avec des avis pour se baigner utilement, 1696

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Medium

Bound volume with 35 etched and engraved illustrations

Dimensions

page size: 14.3 x 7.6 cm (5 5/8 x 3 in.)
book: 14.6 x 8.3 x 1.6 cm (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2004.134.1

Artists / Makers

French 17th Century (artist)

Melchisedech Thevenot (author) French, 1620 - 1692

Image Use

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Provenance

A. Louniou (collector's mark on title page in oval, Lugt undescribed); Donald and Mary Hyde (bookplate inside front cover); (Maggs Brothers, Continental books, cat 1362, 12 October, 2004, no. 169); Purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Maggs Brothers

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 77 b.

Bibliography

1970: Hofer, Philip. Baroque Book Illustration. Cambridge, 1970: 56.