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Design for a Title Page to a Book of Poetry(?)

Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773

Design for a Title Page to a Book of Poetry(?)

5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (141 x 82 mm)
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite, touched with white chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
1968.15:29

Gift of John F. Fleming.

Notes
Gravelot's design probably was intended to serve as title page illustration although a related publication has yet to be identified. A male figure is shown seated in the foreground at right, flanked by two putti; a circular temple with a statue appears in the background, with a bust of a man on a pedestal, surrounded by flying putti, at left.
Associated names
Fourquevaux, Joseph de Beccarie de Pavie, marquis de, 1762-1841, former owner.
Bocher, Emmanuel, 1835-1919, former owner.
Olry-Roederer, Léon, 1869-1932, former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Fleming, John F. (John Francis), 1910-1987, former owner.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. "Drawings by Gravelot in the Morgan Library." Master drawings, XX (Spring 1982), p. 14, no. 52, reproduced plate 18a.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department