Title page.

Method Copper engraving
Artist Abraham Bosse
Published 1653, but later?
Dimensions Image 140 x 98 mm, Plate 145 x 98 mm, Sheet 283 x 214 mm
Notes From a set of 35 plates illustrating Bosse's Moyen universel de practiquer la perspective sure les tableaux ou surfaces irreguliè, ensemble quelques particularites concernant cet art, et celuy de graveure en taille douce. A woman with crown on her head and a belt with numbers stands, a lion at her feet, holding a pair of compasses on a level. Another woman with wings in her hair sits holding a ruler and a palette. A genius holding a snake stand behind the woman. The inscription Pour Practiquer la Persoective sur les Surfaces Irregulieres, &c.

With the number 63 inscribed in the upper right of the image. A plate from Charles Antoine Jombert's drawing book Nouvelle Méthode Pour Apprendre A Dessiner Sans Maître.

Abraham Bosse (1604-1676) French printmaker and painter born in Tours and a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and a student of the surveyor Girard Desargues, founder of projective geometry.

Blum 608, Duplessis 716, Lothe 737
Framing unmounted
Price £50.00
Stock ID 36665

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