Print Description
Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 82 x 44.5 cm (32.28 x 17.52 inch). Image size: 81 x 43.5 cm. (31.89 x 17.13 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Fold lines as issued. Paper separation along the fold lines, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ALLEGORY, CATHOLIC CHURCH, SATIRICAL PRINTS, REFORMATION, COUNTER-REFORMATION, SHIPS, HEAVEN, HERESY, FRENCH ENGRAVING, TYPUS RELIGIONIS, 18TH-CENTURY ART. | EXPO-LARGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Based on a painting in a Jesuit church in Billom, Auvergne now in the Musee de l’Histoire de France housed in the Hotel de Soubise in Paris.
Reference: Frederik Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen, dl. IV, p. 53, nr. 448Aa.
Biography engraver: Jean Michel Moreau le jeune (17411-1814) is considered one the the greatest French etchers. After 1773 he focussed on making drawings for other to engrave.
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