Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

Les Avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse

Author: François de Salignac de la Mothe- Fénelon (French, 1651–1715)
Engraved by: Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (French, born in 1698, worked in England from 1733)
Engraved by: Pierre Fourdrinier (French, worked in England, active 1720–1760)
After: Bernard Picart (French, 1673–1733)
After: Louis Fabritius Dubourg (Dutch, 1693–1775)
After: Gabriel François Louis Debrie (French, 18th century)
After: Joseph Vivien (French, 1657–1734)
Publisher: Robert Dodsley (English, 1703–1764)
1738
Place of Publication: London, England

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 26 engravings
Dimensions Overall (vol. 1): 19.2 x 12.6 x 4 cm (7 9/16 x 4 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1420a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
London: R. Dodsley, 1738

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 382
Description(London: R. Dodsley, 1738) Octavo, two vols.; [v.1] 171 leaves, plus 14 plates; [v.2] 148 ll., 12 pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped mottled brown calf.

Allegorical frontispiece; author portrait; illustrations from Fénélon novel. Illustrations are reduced copies after those in the Dutch edition of 1734 (MFA copy: 37.1699).
ProvenanceSir John Hay Bart. of Smithfield & Haystoun; acquired in 1921 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.