Accession number
PML 140007, no. 13
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Amsterdam?], 1722.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Impression of an engraved title page vignette for an unidentified publication; note that a later copy of this design served as a title page vignette for an edition of Henri Estienne's Apologie pour Hérodote ou Traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes (A La Haye : Chez Henri Scheurleer, 1735).
Impression of an engraved title page vignette for an unidentified publication; note that a later copy of this design served as a title page vignette for an edition of Henri Estienne's Apologie pour Hérodote ou Traité de la conformité des merveilles anciennes avec les modernes (A La Haye : Chez Henri Scheurleer, 1735).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark: 62 x 93 mm; sheet: 71 x 100 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Vignette with Mercury holding a money pouch at center, a library with globe and shelves of books at left, and a dock side scene with ships and cargo at right.
Classification
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