Accession number
PML 5639.36
Creator
Bonnart, Nicolas, 1637-1718, engraver, publisher.
Published
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle [169-].
Notes
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One of a series of seven engravings representing the liberal arts.
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Je ne deurois penser qúà m'occuper toujours ... Découvrent avec plaisir le mouvement des Cieux.
Item no. 36 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
One of a series of seven engravings representing the liberal arts.
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Je ne deurois penser qúà m'occuper toujours ... Découvrent avec plaisir le mouvement des Cieux.
Item no. 36 of v. 2 of a set of 2 bound albums containing a total 170 collected engravings (see PML 5638-39).
Print mounted on bound leaf measuring 524 x 352 mm
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 230 x 176 mm; plate mark: 269 x 184 mm; sheet: 313 x 221 mm
Summary
Print shows a woman in seventeenth-century dress representing Astrology, seated at a table at right with armillary sphere, compass and rulers in front of her, and turning to look through a telescope at left.
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