Clarissa. French, Histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove, and Lettres angloises
Description:
"Eloge" by Diderot., Abridged translation, by Prévost d'Exiles, of: Clarissa., Binding with unidentified arms. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer., False imprint. Printed in Paris for Cazin. Cf. Bibliographie générale des petits-formats dits Cazins. Le petit -format à figures; collection parisienne in -18 (vraie collection de Cazin), p. 137., and Frontispiece portrait signed: C. Duponchel.
Publisher:
Cazin],
Subject (Name):
Cazin, Hubert-Martin, 1724-1795., Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784., Duponchel, Charles Eugène, 1748-, Pforzheimer, Walter L.--(Walter Lionel),--1914-2003--Ownership., Pforzheimer, Walter--Ownership., and Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763.
Clarissa. French, Histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlove, and Lettres angloises
Description:
"Eloge" by Diderot., Abridged translation, by Prévost d'Exiles, of: Clarissa., Binding with unidentified arms. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer., False imprint. Printed in Paris for Cazin. Cf. Bibliographie générale des petits-formats dits Cazins. Le petit -format à figures; collection parisienne in -18 (vraie collection de Cazin), p. 137., and Frontispiece portrait signed: C. Duponchel.
Publisher:
Cazin],
Subject (Name):
Cazin, Hubert-Martin, 1724-1795., Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784., Duponchel, Charles Eugène, 1748-, Pforzheimer, Walter L.--(Walter Lionel),--1914-2003--Ownership., Pforzheimer, Walter--Ownership., and Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763.
Title inscribed in frame above image., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Inscription in French on oval ribbon framing the image: Sa mathematique est l'epreuve. Sort, tu nous es dubieux au bout ..., Six lines of verse in Dutch below image: Ik speel voor man en wyf, als onbestuve weew ..., Plate 17 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 2., and Mounted to 43 x 27 cm., mounted again to 47 x 31 cm.
Portrait of the Countess de Gramont; half length to right, glancing towards the viewer; wearing a rich loose gown and embroidered shawl
Alternative Title:
Mademoiselle d'Hamilton, Comtesse de Grammont and Mademoiselle de Hamilton, Comtesse de Grammont
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont. [Twickenham] : Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "P. 92"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 161 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708,
Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jahr der XVIII. eeuw
Description:
Title from item., State with a figure of a man sprawled on two chairs in the lower left corner and the words "Trans port" engraved on the block of stone in the lower right corner., Plate 34 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse followed by sixteen lines of text in French in the lower left of plate: Qui le croira? Qui l'eût jamais pensé? ..., and Six lines of verse followed by sixteen lines of text in Dutch in the lower right of plate: Wat volk wat eeuw zal dit bedryf geloven ...
Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jahr der XVIII. eeuw
Description:
Title from item., State with a figure of a weeping woman sitting on a chair next to a table in the lower left corner and the words "Procuration pour Hoorn &c." engraved on the block of stone in the lower right corner., Plate 35 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse followed by sixteen lines of text in French in the lower left of plate: Qui le croira? Qui l'eût jamais pensé? ..., Six lines of verse followed by sixteen lines of text in Dutch in the lower right of plate: Wat volk wat eeuw zal dit bedryf geloven ..., and Watermark: countermark DP (monogram) in the right part of sheet.
Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jahr der XVIII. eeuw
Description:
Title from item., State with a figure of a weeping woman sitting on a chair next to a stone plinth engraved with verse in French and Dutch in the lower left corner of image and the words "Procuration pour Hoorn &c." engraved on the block of stone in the lower right corner., Plate 36 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Six lines of verse in French followed by sixteen lines of text in the lower left of plate: Qui le croira? Qui l'eût jamais pensé? ..., and Six lines of verse in Dutch followed by sixteen lines of text in the lower right of plate: Wat volk wat eeuw zal dit bedryf geloven ...