Null COCHIN N. Sculp
"Battle of Lens 1648
Etching on paper
45 x 54 cm
(center fo…

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COCHIN N. Sculp "Battle of Lens 1648 Etching on paper 45 x 54 cm (center fold, unframed)

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COCHIN N. Sculp "Battle of Lens 1648 Etching on paper 45 x 54 cm (center fold, unframed)

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778- Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo; etching, signed 'Piranesi del. et sculp.' (within the plate, lower right), numbered '708' (within the plate, upper right), 38.4 x 54.3 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK.

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1) [ROBBÉ DE BEAUVESET (Pierre-Honoré)]: Mon odyssée ou le journal de mon retour de Saintonge. Poëme à Chloé. The Hague, 1760, 125 pages + 4 t.p. figures. Bound with 2) [WATELET (Claude-Henri)]. Silvie. London [Paris, Prault], 1743, 1 title frontispiece-78 pages + 8 figures h.t. 9.5 by 16 cm. Full streaked black morocco, 5-rib spine, rich inner lace, double fillet on edges, all edges gilt (binding signed POUILLET). Slight scratches on the boards, a bump on one cut. Otherwise very good condition for this sober but stylish binding. Reunion of two charming volumes with engraved figures by Cochin. 1) First edition. C. Michel, Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe s., n° 191. "Robbé asked his uncle Despille for four illustrations and had them engraved by their friend Cochin. The four drawings attributed without convincing reason to Cochin are in the Louvre." (C. Michel). In satirical verse, the author recounts his picaresque adventures on the road from Jonzac to Orléans, via Saintes, Chinon, Tours, Amboise and Blois. The third song features an apparition of Rabelais, who invites the author to pay him a visit. 2) First edition. C. Michel, Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe s., no. 195. "Four vignettes of children's games, drawn by Pierre, engraved by Cochin fils. Nine in-8 size prints, 1 frontispiece and 8 plates drawn by M. Pierre, eight of which etched by M. Watelet, to which M. Cochin fils gave a few touches in different places on the varnish, before making them bite, & then made a few repeats with the burin in the places missed by the etching. The ninth print, La timidité d'Aminte, is engraved entirely by Cochin fils." (C. Michel). Roman à clef by an author who was a collaborator of the Encyclopédie.

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After Charles-Antoine COYPEL (1694-1752) & engraved by Charles-Nicolas II COCHIN (1715-1790). Poltronerie de Sancho à La Chasse, Tome 4, Page 34. Etching on Vellum, signed in the plate. Sevend Editions, Paris. 33.5 x 35.5 cm (view).

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