Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 66, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Engraving by Gillot issued as a headpiece illustration on page 170 (Book III, fable 11), of M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
Sheet 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).
Sheet 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).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 74 x 92 mm; sheet: 92 x 10 mm
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 a lion seated in an open cave, in the middle of a wooded landscape, holding a baton in its paws; in front of the opening, many animals are grouped around the entrance: at right, a fox, and at left, a dragon and a monkey, acting as a secretary, with a quill in its left hand, writing on a piece of paper; in the immediate foreground, at centre, a rat can be seen from behind.
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