Subject: Frontispiece
Period: 1676 (circa)
Publication: Tableaux du Temple des Muses
Color: Hand Color
Size:
3.9 x 5.6 inches
9.9 x 14.2 cm
This lovely plate from M. des Marolles' Temple des Muses shows Atlas holding aloft the sky, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Engraved by Peter de Bailliu.
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Condition: A
On bright paper with some minor soiling and printer's ink residue in the blank margins.