Search the Collections

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain René LeSage (Paris: Hubert … Janet, An III [1795]), vol. 4
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain René LeSage (Paris: Hubert … Janet, An III [1795]), vol. 4
Date:
18th century
Location:
Not on display
Century:
18th Century AD
Media:
Book With 25 Engravings
Dimensions:
21 x 13 x 2.6 cm (object)
Department:
Achenbach Foundation
Object Type:
Book
Country:
France
Continent:
Europe
Provenance:

Provenance: no bookplates inthis volume;
Languages Used in Text:French
Remarks:illustrations mostly but not entirely by Bornet, mostly engraved by Hubert
Conservation note: leather could use treatment

Accession Number:
1963.30.39035(v.4).76-100
Acquisition Date:
1963-01-01
Credit Line:

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

illustrated picaresque novel: adventures, scenes of daily life, lovers, prisons, religious figures, courtiers

Something amiss? Suggest an edit.

Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”