Accession number
PML 140007, no. 106
Creator
Legrand, Louis Claude, 1723-1807, engraver.
Published
17--?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
After an engraving by Picart originally issued as a frontispiece plate to an edition of La Fontaine's "Fables choisies" (Amsterdam : L'Honoré et Chatelain, 1722), the design here slightly reduced and simplified.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted on backing sheet.
After an engraving by Picart originally issued as a frontispiece plate to an edition of La Fontaine's "Fables choisies" (Amsterdam : L'Honoré et Chatelain, 1722), the design here slightly reduced and simplified.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted on backing sheet.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 115 x 67 mm; sheet: 123 x 74 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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