L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l'aide des Momumens Historiques ... [graphic]

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Title: L'Histoire, guidée par son Génie, et à l'aide des Momumens Historiques ... [graphic]
Creator: Gouwen, Gilliam van der, printmaker
Contributor: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, artist.
Published / Created: [1713]
Publication Place: Rotterdam?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Architectural setting with, on the left History and a Spirit writing the history of England; in the foreground, winged Spirits taking books away from Time, who is trying to devour them; on the right, London, personified by a seated, crowned woman leaning on a lion, sits at the bottom of a pedestal; in the upper part, Fame blowing a trumpet and carrying the oval portrait of Isaac de Larrey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Frontispiece to the third or fourth volume of Larrey's 'Histoire d'Angleterre', 4 vols (Rotterdam, 1697-1713). See British Museum online catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image on left edge.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36.7 x 23 cm
Language: French

Genre: Views
Allegorical prints
Frontispieces
Engravings Netherlands 1713
Etchings Netherlands 1713
Material: engraving and etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: Netherlands > 1713

Access: Public
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