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Auction 152, Lot 44
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"Figures des Planetes", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Celestial

Period: 1783 (circa)

Publication: Beschreibung des Ganzen Welt-Kreisses

Color: Hand Color

Size:
3.9 x 5.7 inches
9.9 x 14.5 cm
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This lovely small engraving features a view of a palace, likely the Palace of Versailles, from the vantage of the elaborately designed garden. In the sky above the palace is the layout of the planets, sun, and moon. An alternate German title, Figuren der Planeten, runs across the top of the engraving.

References: Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET I B.

Condition: B+

On a watermarked sheet with a couple printer's creases, remnants of hinge tape on verso, and light soiling largely confined to the margins.

Estimate: $100 - $130

Sold for: $75

Closed on 2/18/2015

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