Le Soleil apres avoir acheve son cours descend chez Thetis, ou six de ses Nymphes sont occupees a le Servir, & a luy offrir toutes sortes de rafraichissemens. // [The Sun, having completed its course, descends by Thetis, where six of her nymphs are servin.

Engraver
Edelinck, Jean, 1643-1680 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1678.
Description
1 item ; sheet 52.7 x 60.3 cm.

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2013.00210 A Middle 40/Drawer 05/GC077/Half Folio/17th c./Versailles Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Notes
    • Medium: Etchings, Engravings
    • Depiction: Six nymphs attending to the Sun after it descends.
    • Signed in plate, lower right: "Joannes Edelinck sculpsit. 1678".
    Source acquisition
    Acquired by Princeton in 1886 in an exchange with the Bibliotheque nationale (France). John S. Pierson, Class of 1840, effected the exchange, recorded by the BN as "Double e'change" No. 907.
    Other title(s)
    Description de la Grotte de Versailles, no. 16
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