Accession number
PML 2852
Published
Lyon : Par Jan De Tournes, 1557.
Notes
See: Brunet, IV, 850. Cartier: Tournes, 387. See: Cartier: Tournes, 353 and v. 1, p. 15. See: Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. Estampes, Dépt. des: Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du seizième siècle, II, 100, 186-187. Harvard 446.
Issued also in 1556.
Issued also in 1556.
Description
62 plates.
Provenance
From the collection La Roche Lacarelle (cat. no. 92).
Summary
A collection of small woodcuts, generally attributed to Bernard Salomon or his workshop, issued as a specimen book or possibly as an "album amicorum." The cuts of various sizes depict stages, myths, and hunting scenes, as well as heads of men and women. Many of them had been, or were later, used as book illustrations. For detailed discussion of a slightly different collection, cf. Cartier. T.p. has an historiated border (Cartier 12).
Binding
Blue morocco with doublure of orange morocco, gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
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