Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 65, no. 5
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Etched state of an engraving by Gillot issued as a headpiece illustration on page 317 (Book V, fable 9), 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: 75 x 93 mm; sheet: 90 x 107 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 seascape, where a whale can be seen at center right; jets of water gush forth from its spout; a man climbs its head, holding clubs in both hands; a young woman seated on a rock watches the scene at far left.
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