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Suitte d'estampes des principaux sujets des Comédies de Molière gravées sur les esquisses de Charles Coypel, dédiée au public en M. DCCXXVI [print]

Accession number
PML 196739
Creator
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, engraver.
Published
Paris : Chez Surrugue, 1726.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 2017.
Notes
Suite of 6 unnumbered etchings, including title-plate, by François Joullain after Coypel.
With all of the plates bearing the imprint of Chez Surrugue below the image.
Library's copy has the plates mounted on bound sheets.
Order of plates varies between bound copies of this set.
Description
6 prints : etchings, image: 22.5 x 30.9 cm, or smaller; sheet: 29 x 40.3 cm, or smaller; volume: 42 x 32 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Lucien Tissot Dupont.
Summary
Title-plate and 5 etchings depicting the interior of the Comédie Française and scenes from 5 of Molière's plays.
Binding
Marbled boards with vellum spine.
Classification
Department