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Tableaux du temple des muses : tirez du cabinet de feu mr. Favereau...gravez en tailles-douces par les meilleurs maistres de son temps, pour representer les vertus & les vices, sur les plus illustres fables de l'antiquité

Marolles, Michel de, 1600-1681 · 1676 · Amsterdam : A. Wolfgank · 169 pictures

A 1676 Amsterdam printing by Michel de Marolles, issued by the publisher A. Wolfgank, presenting engraved plates of virtues, vices and classical fables drawn from a collector's cabinet for a learned French-reading audience. The pictures are decorative woodcut-style initials and ornamental cartouches built from scrolling acanthus leaves, foliage, and fleshy fruit forms, which a designer could adapt for historical borders, capitals, and classical frames.

Mythology, Greek

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