Nouveau recueil d'osteologie et de myologie (A New Collection of Osteology and Myology)

1779

Jacques Gamelin

Artist, French, 1738 - 1803

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress text and nearly 100 etchings, engravings, and chalk-manner engravings on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 53.5 × 42.5 × 4.5 cm (21 1/16 × 16 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2024.41.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mariano González de Sepúlveda (1774-1842), Madrid. (Caleb Rare Books, Longmeadow, MA); purchased by NGA, 2024

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters in red leather label on spine of brown leather binding: RECUEIL DOSTEOL; on front fly leaf, at upper left, in brown ink: 6 del Lion; on front fly leaf, at upper left, in black ink ? Wergen; on front fly leaf, at lower left, in brown ink: 3da; on front fly leaf, at lower right, in graphite: PG / 169972 [partially erased]; on front fly leaf, at upper right, in brown ink: .0.; on title page, at upper left, in black ink: ? Wergen; on back fly leaf, at upper right, in graphite: PG / 169972

Markings

inside front cover, bookplate of Mariano González de Sepúlveda


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