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[PAINTINGS OF THE REVOLUTION].
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137
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[PAINTINGS OF THE REVOLUTION].
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[PAINTINGS OF THE REVOLUTION].
A complete collection of historical paintings of the French Revolution.
Paris: Printed by Pierre Didot the Elder, 1798 (Year VI).
2 volumes, large folio. 19th-century marine-coloured half-chagrin with corners, spine with faux raised bands highlighted by cold-stamped and gilt fillets, gilt title and volume number, marbled edges (some minor wear and scuffing; upper joints slightly damaged in volume 1).
First and only early edition.
A fine copy of this impressive publication, which appeared between 1791 and 1796 in 112 instalments.
A very fine Didot print on large vellum paper.
The illustrations are engraved on copper in black, some on azure-coloured paper.
Includes the 2 frontispieces after Fragonard the Younger and the 144 plates depicting scenes from the French Revolution by Jean-Louis Prieur, Jacques François Joseph Swebach, Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, Abraham Girardet, Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Fragonard and Jean Desaulx, all finely rendered.
Includes a frontispiece entitled ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’.
Nine illustrations and 66 plates of text and portraits, all fully engraved.
The series of medallion portraits of figures from the Revolution is magnificently executed in the ‘manière noire’ technique. Each is set above a historical banner and a text engraved in italics.
Very fine prints.
Complete with the plate showing the assignats and the table of their values?
At the end, instalment sheets for the publication? and a document on the Concordat, the Consulate and Bonaparte’s appointment as Consul for life.
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