Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 91, no. 2
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
A Paris : Chez P. de Rochefort graveur rue Saint-Jacques au Palmier, [1709]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from item.
Date of publication from Populus.
Print commemorating the severe winter of 1709, with the design framing a blank rectangular space intended to accommodate a calendar.
Companion print to Gillot's "Le grand hyver de l'année MDCCIX".
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).
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Date of publication from Populus.
Print commemorating the severe winter of 1709, with the design framing a blank rectangular space intended to accommodate a calendar.
Companion print to Gillot's "Le grand hyver de l'année MDCCIX".
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).
Library's copy trimmed within platemark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 220 x 254 mm; sheet: 239 x 265 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
Print shows, in the upper portion of the design, Ceres reclines beneath a tree, clasping her hands in distress; she surmounts an architectural frame which incorporates the title and a blank space for the addition of a calendar; at left and right are four framed vignettes, two on either side, the upper design in an oval frame and the lower in a rectangle; the four smaller designs show scenes of destruction wrought by the extraordinary cold, including the death of the grapevines and gardens, the loss of crops, and the severe storm which occurred on the night of September 13 of the previous year.
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