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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 · 50 pictures

A four-volume dictionary of allegorical figures drawn by Hubert Gravelot and Charles-Nicolas Cochin, engraved under Gaucher and published in Paris in 1791 for artists, collectors and the instruction of young people. Each plate frames a single standing personification with her attributes inside a ruled border above a titled cartouche, giving designers ready-made emblem figures, labels and frames.

Allegories · Emblems · Symbolism in art

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