Antique Master Print-POEM-DEMON-IMPOSSIBLE-THING-de Longueil-Eisen-1762

The Impossible Thing. A print that accompanies the following poem translated to english: “A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart …

Made by Joseph de Longueil after Charles Eisen.

Medium: Etching and stipple engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 12.6 x 17.4 cm (4.96 x 6.85 inch). Image size: 7 x 10.8 cm. (2.76 x 4.25 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

POEM-DEMON-IMPOSSIBLE-THING | PCO-C21-12

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From “Contes et nouvelles en vers’ by Jean La Fontaine, (Pl?iade, p. 878, notice p. 1486).

Reference: David Adams, La Fontaine’s Contes et nvelles en vers of 1762, SVEC, Vf, 2006

II, xxv, p. 309.

Biography engraver: Joseph de Longueil (1730-1792) was a French engraver.

Biography artist: Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720-1778) was a French painter and engraver.