Accession number
PML 145850.171
Creator
Gouwen, Gilliam van der, engraver.
Published
[Rotterdam : s.n.], 1713.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Signed below image: Inventé et dessiné par B. Picart 1713 ; Gravé par vander Gouwen.
Frontispiece to the fourth volume of Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre (Rotterdam, 1697-1713).
Engraved text below image continues: ... et à l'aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l'Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce Roiaume, paroit dans l'Enfoncement; et au Haut, la Renommée tient le Portrait du celebre Auteur de cette Histoire.
Inserted as item 171 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Signed below image: Inventé et dessiné par B. Picart 1713 ; Gravé par vander Gouwen.
Frontispiece to the fourth volume of Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre (Rotterdam, 1697-1713).
Engraved text below image continues: ... et à l'aide des Monumens Historiques que divers petits Génies arrachent qu Tems qui les devore, rassemble en un Corps les Envénemens les plus remarquables que regardent l'Angleterre La Ville de Londres, Capitale de ce Roiaume, paroit dans l'Enfoncement; et au Haut, la Renommée tient le Portrait du celebre Auteur de cette Histoire.
Inserted as item 171 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 340 x 222 mm; plate mark: 366 x 230 mm; sheet: 421 x 304 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an architectural setting with, on the left, History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged cherubs are taking books away from Father Time, who is trying to devour them; on the right, London, personified by a seated, crowned woman leaning on a lion, sits at the bottom of a pedestal; in the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying the oval portrait of Isaac de Larrey; in the background, a view of the city of London.
Classification
Catalog link
Department