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Lot 728: PRINCIPES DE CARICATURES, SUIVIS D'UN ESSAI SUR LA PEINTURE COMIQUE. TRADUIT EN FRANÇAIS, AVEC DES AUGMENTATIONS.

Est: €200 EUR - €300 EURPassed
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumMarch 26, 2021

Item Overview

Description

In-8° : 48 pp. ; 28 pl. (petit manque marg. au 1er f. bl., min. piq.). - Première édition en France et nouvelle édition de la traduction de "Rules for drawing caricatures, with an essay on comic painting" (Londres 1788), établie par Renouard d'après une traduction française anonyme d'une traduction allemande par Johann Gottfried Grohmann, parue à Leipzig en 1800. Ex. sur papier vélin. Illustré (complet) d'un frontispice et 28 planches dont 6 dépliantes gravées par Grohmann (1763-1805) d'après Grose (1731-1791) sauf les dépliantes d'après George Moutard Woodward (1765-1809), un ami de Th. Rowlandson. Curieux ouvrage par le Britannique Fr. Grose (1731-191), antiquaire, dessinateur et lexicographe (notamment du "slang" [argot]), qui mena également une carrière militaire. Portrait... caricatural de l'auteur en "Dogue d'antiquaire" en frontispice, les autres planches figurants des nez, des bouches, des visages et des scènes ou situations. - Réf. Cicognara 326. - Prov. Mention ms. datée 1804 au verso de la garde sup. - C. Pieters (ex-libris).

Artist or Maker

Date

an x - 1802

Condition Report

Veau raciné de l'époque (min. frottements), roulette et grecque dorés sur les plats, dos lisse à compartiments ornés de masques dorés, bordures ornées dorées, tr. dorées. Bon ex.

Payment & Shipping

Accepted forms of payment: Wire Transfer

Shipping

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Auction Details

D2 - Books and Prints

by
Arenberg Auctions
March 26, 2021, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

Terms

Buyer's Premium

25.0%

Bidding Increments

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€50€199€10
€200€399€20
€400€999€50
€1,000€1,999€100
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€10,000€19,999€1,000
€20,000€69,999€2,000
€70,000+€5,000

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Shipping Terms

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