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Iconologie par figures; ou, Traité complet des allégories, emblêmes, etc. Ouvrage utile aux artistes, aux amateurs, et peuvent servir à l'éducation des jeunes personnes

Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, Gaucher, Charles-Etienne, 1741-1804 · 1791 · Paris, Lattré graveur · 47 pictures

A four-volume French dictionary of allegory drawn by Hubert Gravelot and Charles-Nicolas Cochin and engraved under Gaucher, issued in Paris in 1791 as a reference for artists, amateurs and pupils. Each plate frames a single personified virtue or idea as a draped female figure with attributes, named on a cartouche below, hatched in fine line against dark rock and sky.

Allegories · Emblems · Symbolism in art

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