Portraicts allegoriques des vertus et des vices

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2236

Imprint

A Paris: chez E. Desrochers rue de foin, [between 1722 and 1741].

Physical Description

[36] pl.

Responsibility Note

No plate is signed.

The second plate, 'Timor Domini', carries the imprint of the printer and bookseller, 'Desrochers ex.'

References

A serial devoted to emblem studies is Emblemata: an interdisciplinary journal (1986-).

Summary Note

There is no title-page or title-plate. But the first plate, captioned 'Natura', carries at its head the engraved title, 'Portraicts allegoriques des vertus et des vices', and at its foot the imprint, 'a Paris chez E. Desrochers rue de foin'. No date of publication is given; but, according to Hennin, Etienne Duhandier dit Desrochers was established in rue du Foin in 1722.

The plates are captioned in Latin, and show: Natura, Timor Domini, Virtus, Honor, Pietas, Poenitentia, Ratio, Labor, Tribulatio, Patientia, Misericordia, Mensura, Experientia, Maiestas, Potestas, Obedientia, Foedus, Debilitas, Victoria, Pax, Diligentia, Pecunia, Liberalitas, Sanitas, Concordia, Constantia, Vis, Discordia, Impudentia, Fraus, Pavor, Inquietudo, Periculum, Diffidentia Dei, Negligentia, Æternitas.

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Copy Note

This copy is inscribed in ink at the head of the first plate, '36. allegorical Figures.'.

Binding Note

20th-century half calf; marbled-paper boards; red morocco spine-label, lettered, 'Portraicts Allegoriques'.

Subject

Allegories - Virtues - Vices - Emblems (allegorical pictures) - Iconography
Emblem books - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors

Etienne Jahandier dit Desrochers, publisher