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Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccios Decamerone

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Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccios Decamerone

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One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprises 213 illustrations (including a portrait, title pages, plates, and vignettes), 13 of them by other artists. The same illustrations were used for the French translation by A.J. Maçon, Londres (i.e. Paris) 1757-1761.
Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1645
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Reconsider type value if recataloging; td12 2009-03-12

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01/01/1757
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Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773.
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