BEIN 90 1650: Sheet measures 42 x 57 cm. Ms. no. on recto: 7[?]. Stamp on verso: Karpinski-von Wieser Map Collection., "Auec priuilege du Roy pour 20 ans"., and From Sanson's Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (1658).
Publisher:
Chez l'autheur, et chez Pierre Mariette, rue St. Iacques a l'Esperance ...
Bonvallet, L. (Louis), approximately 1748-1818, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1785]
Call Number:
785.01.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in rural France: A farmer holding onto a plow drawn by a team of oxen, shepherds with their sheep, and a man fishing in a stream, all look up in astonishment at the air balloon overhead. This print references the third flight of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, his second with American John Jeffries and the first flight over the English Channel
Alternative Title:
Premier passager aerien de la mer and Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, pensioné du roi, citoyen de Calais
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched above title: Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, Pensioné de Roi, Citoyen de Calais., "Avec Privilege du Roi"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Six lines of verse, signed "Basset" at the end, in two columns below title: Le Pécheur qui sur l'eau tenait son bras tendu ...
Publisher:
Chez Basset rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809. and Jeffries, John, 1745-1819.
Three West Indian washer women sit or stand in or near a stream. The one on land balances a basket of clean wash on her head and has a baby strapped to her back
Alternative Title:
West India washer-woman
Description:
Title from caption below image, in French and English., "This plate is dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Bart. by his most obliged and devoted servt. A. Brunias."--Dedication following title., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge, resulting in loss of imprint statement., and Printed on laid paper; hand-colored.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, No. 416 et au Palais Royal, au Pavillon près le bassin
BEIN 2000 628: With: Catalogue des livres de la bibliotheque de feu M. Guettard. A Paris: Chez Pissot ... Chez Saugrin, 1786; ms. notes; priced. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., "La vente des livres rares & precieux ... se fera le lundi 27 novembre 1780"--p. [1] at end., "Table alphabetique des auteurs": p. [289]-312., and Ms. note on t.p. of Beinecke Library copy attributes the collection to "De S. Seran" [i.e. Ceran]; Brown University's record attributes it to Mel de Saint-Céran.
Scene of men chopping, hewing, and carrying wood, with two figures embracing at center. In the lower right corner, a woman feeds a baby whose foot a seated man kisses; another young child leans on the woman. The scene is set among trees with fronds and a shoreline in the distant background
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +116: Imperfect: bled at foot, with loss of fourth line of text and publisher's statement. Watercolor hand-coloring., BEIN WA Prints +122: Not colored., Title and statements of responsibility engraved below image., and Publication statement engraved below main text.
Publisher:
Chez Bulla, rue St. Jacques No. 38 et chez Ladvocat, Libraire, palais Royal, galerie de bois, Nos. 197 et 198