Accession number:
PML 198162, fol. 52, no. 4
Published:
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Description:
1 print : etching ; image: 74 x 93 mm; sheet: 90 x 105 mm
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes:
Etched state of an engraving by Gillot issued as a headpiece illustration on page 349 (Book V, fable 18), of M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
Sheet closely trimmed within plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Provenance:
Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.
Summary:
Illustration shows, in the immediate foreground, a palm tree has fallen on the ground; behind it, at left, an elephant lifts up a hunter with its trunk, throwing him over its back; the hunter holds a bow in his left hand, with arms flailing; to the right, three elephants can be seen, watching the hunter.
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