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OUDRY'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF LA FONTAINE'S "FABLES" browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Prints: Engravings: Pre 1800: item # 387200
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| Six engraved illustrations after designs by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, for La Fontaine's "Fables," printed on handmade paper, removed from what we assume was a first edition of the four-volume set published 1755-1759 with 276 plates ("Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Jean de la Fontaine"), the six measuring 10 3/4" - 11 1/4" x 8" - 8 1/2" (one is 7 5/8" wide), the plates trimmed (and unevenly so) within their decorative borders and laid down (around their edges and, in part, from the top of the sheets to the bottom and the left of the sheets to the right) on thick pieces of fine handmade paper (these sheets with blank margins of between 1/4" and 1 1/4"), their titles and the number of the fable each illustrates (these left intact by the trimming process) below the images; unmatted, unframed. One engraving ("Les Deux Mulets") has a stain in the lower margin, slightly affecting the image; one engraving ("Le Lievre et la Tortue") is trimmed to the inner edge of the decorative border on three sides; one handmade paper backing sheet is missing a small piece along one edge. The six illustrations and the numbers of the fables they illustrate: "Les Deux Mulets" (4, second plate); "Le Corbeau Voulant Imiter l'Aigle" (38); "Le Lievre et la Tortue" (113); "Les Deux Amis" (153); "L'Aigle et la Pie" (224); "La Matrone d'Ephese" (243). | |||||||||
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