Accession number
PML 140007, no. 97
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Published
[Amsterdam] : [Arnold Willis], 1721
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Issued as a frontispiece plate to an edition of La Fontaine's "Fables choisies" (Amsterdam : L'Honoré et Chatelain, 1722).
Signed and dated: B. Picart fecit. 1721.
With five lines of explanatory caption text in French: Deux Genies puisent de l'eau la fontaine d'Hypocrene ...
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Issued as a frontispiece plate to an edition of La Fontaine's "Fables choisies" (Amsterdam : L'Honoré et Chatelain, 1722).
Signed and dated: B. Picart fecit. 1721.
With five lines of explanatory caption text in French: Deux Genies puisent de l'eau la fontaine d'Hypocrene ...
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 138 x 80 mm; sheet: 149 x 82 mm
Summary
Allegorical scene with Jean de la Fontaine seated at left beside his muse, and staring at Aesop, who stands at right and points at Truth, who stands above them, on a cloud; Fable personified is wrapping a veil decorated with animals around her, while Morality sits at her feet.
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