"Fortune adverse" - "Je racommode les langues à la fantaisie du Monde" (I tinker with tongues to suit the whims of the world).
- "He who flees when he is called..." - Tout le monde cherche sa commodité..." and other plates from the Recueil des plus Illustres Proverbes.
Etchings edited by LAGNIET. Fine proofs with color highlights, a few tears, stains and fold marks. Some yellowed, cut on the subject or with small margins.
Approx. 19 x 17 cm
Set of 12 plates.
Fashion and costume plates, allegories from Recueil de Costumes, engraved and edited by the BONNART brothers. Satirical plates from LAGNIET's Recueil des plus Illustres proverbes, second half of the 17th century.
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