Accession number
PML 140007, no. 236
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, printmaker.
Published
[Hague] : [Pieter Husson, et al.], 1724.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Tile supplied by cataloger.
Engraving issued as a headpiece illustration in A.G. Luïscius's "Het algemeen historisch, geographisch en genealogisch woordenboek" (In 's Gravenhage : Pieter Husson, Thomas Johnson, Johannes Van Duren, Charles Le Vier; Te delft : Reinier Boitet, 1724-1737).
Engraving issued as a headpiece illustration in A.G. Luïscius's "Het algemeen historisch, geographisch en genealogisch woordenboek" (In 's Gravenhage : Pieter Husson, Thomas Johnson, Johannes Van Duren, Charles Le Vier; Te delft : Reinier Boitet, 1724-1737).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 92 x 157 mm; plate mark: 101 x 159 mm; sheet: 188 x 245 mm
Summary
Print shows the interior of a library, with bookcases arranged along the walls; a man on a ladder at left is returning or removing a book from the shelf, in the center of the four men and a woman converse around a table, while two men study a globe at right.
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