Accession number
PML 145850.211
Published
A Paris : Chez Langlois sur te petit pont a la Coupe d'Or, [between 1705 and 1722]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
The establishment of publisher and printer Jacques Langlois was located at the above address from ca. 1705 onwards.
Inserted as item 211 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).
Library's copy torn at upper corners with loss to border; trimmed.
The establishment of publisher and printer Jacques Langlois was located at the above address from ca. 1705 onwards.
Inserted as item 211 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).
Library's copy torn at upper corners with loss to border; trimmed.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 293 x 190 mm; sheet: 301 x 204 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print illustrating the folly of various types of vanity, including "Vanité de Force, et de Valleur dans les armes", showing two men dualing with swords, with two demons standing behind them as seconds; "Vanité de la Beauté des Femmes", showing two men standing before two framed portraits, one of a woman and the other of a skull; "Vanité des Sciences", showing a man leaping head first off a precipace into the water below; and "Vanité de la Fortune de ce monde", in foreground, showing three men paying homage to the blind folded figure of Fortuna, who sits enthroned, flanked by Death and the Devil.
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