Accession number
PML 5639.38
Creator
Bonnart, Nicolas, 1637-1718, engraver, publisher.
Published
A Paris : Chez N. Bonnart, rüe St. Jacques, à l'aigle, [169-].
Notes
Title from item.
One of a series of seven engravings representing the liberal arts (see PML 5639.33-39).
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Les superbes Palais, les magnifiques Temples ... Suivent aussi mes Traits, mes Ordres, mon dessein.
Item no. 38 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 (see PML 5639.33-39).
Four lines of verse in two columns below caption title: Les superbes Palais, les magnifiques Temples ... Suivent aussi mes Traits, mes Ordres, mon dessein.
Item no. 38 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: 232 x 176 mm; plate mark: 272 x 186 mm; sheet: 311 x 221 mm
Summary
Print shows a woman in seventeenth-century dress representing Architecture, seated on a capital facing left, with a model of a building held in one hand, the other holding a ruler.
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