Accession number
PML 140007, no. 27
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Paris?], 1708.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
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Allegorical scene issued as an illustration to a single sheet publication, with the engraved text headed by a caption title entitled "L'accord de la Religion avec la Philosophie, ou de la Raison avec la Foy", the the scene and the text/border printed from two separate plates on a single sheet.
Allegorical scene issued as an illustration to a single sheet publication, with the engraved text headed by a caption title entitled "L'accord de la Religion avec la Philosophie, ou de la Raison avec la Foy", the the scene and the text/border printed from two separate plates on a single sheet.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 92 x 151 mm; sheet: 102 x 153 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
The agreement between Religion and Philosophy, or between Reason and Faith, thesis engraving; Philosophy, personified by a woman crowned with stars, shakes hand with Religion, who stands at the top of some steps, next to the Bible; on the right stand Faith, covered by a veil, and Hope, carrying an anchor and praying; on the left the daughters of Philosophy (Poetry, Geometry, Grammar, Chemistry, Painting, Rhetoric and Music).
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