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
Author: 
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, engraver.
Published: 
Paris : Chez Surrugue, 1726.
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
Credit: 
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.

Binding: 
Marbled boards with vellum spine.
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.

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