Dutch and French engravings (portraits and allegories)
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Engravings by various artists, depicting prominent individuals, including many clergymen and intellectuals, of western Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Many of the portraits appear to have been done in memory of their subjects shortly after their death. Included are portraits of Thomas Cromwell, Gabriel Naudé, Nicolas Caussin; John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury; Jean de La Fontaine; Alexandre de Prouville, marquis de Tracy; Giovanni Battista Montano, Thierry Bignon, Edouard Colbert de Villacerf, Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Gassendi. Also included are allegorical scenes, Biblical scenes, and decorative vignettes. One engraving, "La reponce embarassante," 1700s, is hand-colored. Engravers include Nicolas de Largillierre, Claude Mellan, Robert Nanteuil, Abraham Bosse, Jacobus Houbraken, and Gerard de Jode.
Dates
- circa 1509-1778.
Creator
- no primary creator (Person)
- Largillierre, Nicolas de, 1656-1746. (Person)
- Mellan, Claude, 1598-1688. (Person)
- Nanteuil, Robert, 1623-1678. (Person)
- Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676. (Person)
- Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780. (Person)
- Jode, Gerard de, approximately 1516 or 1517-1591. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English,French, and Latin
Extent
.5 cubic feet. (.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Engravings by various artists, depicting prominent individuals, including many clergymen and intellectuals, of western Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Also, allegorical scenes, Biblical scenes, and decorative vignettes.
Physical Description
Engravings
- Bignon, Thierry -- : Portraits.
- Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651 -- : Portraits.
- Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 -- : Portraits.
- Engravings -- France.
- Engravings -- Netherlands.
- Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655 -- : Portraits.
- Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721 -- : Portraits.
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 -- : Portraits.
- Montano, Giovanni Battista, 1545-1621 -- : Portraits.
- Naudé, Gabriel, 1600-1653 -- : Portraits.
- Tillotson, John, 1630-1694 -- : Portraits.
- Tracy, Alexandre de Prouville, marquis de, 1596 or 1603-1670 -- : Portraits.
- Villacerf, Edouard Colbert de -- : Portraits.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- April 2014
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu