Antique Print-PIERRE DANIEL HUET-PORTRAIT-Fehr-c. 1720

Original antique print showing a portrait of Pierre Daniel Huet (1630 – 1721), a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Acad?mie de Physique in Caen (1662-1672) and Bishop of Soissons from 1685 to 1689 and afterwards of Avranches.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 9.8 x 15.4 cm (3.86 x 6.06 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Margins cut short and cut into plate right side. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PIERRE DANIEL HUET-PORTRAIT | RB-A8-03

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Germany c. 1720.

Biography engraver: Fehr, Peter, (1681-1740), German engraver. .

Biography artist:

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