283 - Francois Joullain Mercure et hersé

Francois Joullain Mercure et hersé Etching, 438 × 298 mm (plate), 550 × 400 mm (sheet). From the collection Recueil d’Estampes d’après les plus beaux tableaux... qui sont en France, printed and published in Paris in 1729.Very fine impression, printed on laid paper with “Dupuy fin Auvergne” watermark. Sheet with wide margins beyond the platemark, in very good overall condition, except for uniform browning and some defects along the edges.Included another 18th-century French print depicting Mercury.