Cabinet de l'art de schulpture [sic] / par le fameux sculpteur Francis van Bossuit ; executé en yvoire ou ebauché en terre ; gravées d'apres les desseins de Barent Graat par Matthys Pool.
Alternate Title(s):
Cabinet de l'art de sculpture
Published / Created:
A Amsterdam : Chez Matthys Pool sur le leʻiose graft proche de heere graft, MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
103 [i.e. 99] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsNB673.B57 A4 1727+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engraved throughout.Printed on one side of leaf only.Text, biographical sketches of artists in parallel columns of French, Dutch and English, printed in italics.Paging consists of 10 introductory leaves, numbered 1-2, A, III-IV. Plates numbered IX-CIII and one final unnumbered leaf of index.Titles on added engraved t.p. following t.p. proper: Beeld-snyders, kunst-kabinet door den vermaar den beeldsnyder Francis van Boissuit in yvoor gesneeden en geboetseert, in't koper gebragt naar de teekeningen van Barent Graat. Door Mattys Pool = Statues, or art's cabinet containing the ivory works of that famous statuary Francis van Bossuit and curiously ingraven [sic] in copper, according to the draught of Barent Graat by Mathew Pool.Cicognara, 272BAC: Illegible contemporary ms inscription on recto of first free end-paper.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1727.
Contributors:
Graat, Barend, 1628–1709. | Pool, Matthys, 1670–ca. 1732.