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Fables nouvelles, dediées au Roy...avec un discours sur la fable. Quatrième édition
Engraved by: Wouter Jongman (Dutch, active 1712–1744)
Engraved by: Nicolas Etienne Edelinck (French, 1681–1767)
After: Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694–1752)
After: Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722)
After: Bernard Picart (French, 1673–1733)
After: Jean Ranc (French, 1674–1735)
Author: Antoine Houdar de La Motte (French, 1672–1731)
Printer: Rudolf Wetstein (Dutch, active 1701–1730)
Printer: Jacob Wetstein (Dutch, active 1721–1750)
Engraved by: Nicolas Etienne Edelinck (French, 1681–1767)
After: Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694–1752)
After: Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722)
After: Bernard Picart (French, 1673–1733)
After: Jean Ranc (French, 1674–1735)
Author: Antoine Houdar de La Motte (French, 1672–1731)
Printer: Rudolf Wetstein (Dutch, active 1701–1730)
Printer: Jacob Wetstein (Dutch, active 1721–1750)
1727
Place of Publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 89 [of 100] etching and engravings
Dimensions
Overall: 16.8 x 10.7 x 4 cm (6 5/8 x 4 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1631
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Amsterdam: R. and J. Wetstein, and G. Smith, 1727
Catalogue Raisonné
Cohen-de Ricci 595
Description(Amsterdam: R. and J. Wetstein, and G. Smith, 1727) Duodecimo, 2 vols. in 1; [v. 1] 105 leaves, plus plates, [v. 2] 78 leaves, plus plates; contemporary gilt-stamped brown calf.
Allegorical frontispiece; illustrations to fables. Fourth edition; the first appeared in 1719 in Paris (MFA, 2 cops.: 34.854 & 37.1728). The illustrations in this edition (including the frontispiece) have been copied from those in the first, which were for the most part (68 of the 99) designed and etched by Gillot, while the remaining were after drawings by Coypel, Picart, Massé, and Ranc. The frontispiece in this 1727 edition was engraved by Edelinck after Coypel. All the fable illustrations, attributed to Jongman, are surrounded by ornamental frames; the first only is signed by him.
This copy lacking 11 plates: Book I, 14; II, 10, 17; III, 4, 12; IV, 3, 15, 16; and V, 6, 7, 12.
Allegorical frontispiece; illustrations to fables. Fourth edition; the first appeared in 1719 in Paris (MFA, 2 cops.: 34.854 & 37.1728). The illustrations in this edition (including the frontispiece) have been copied from those in the first, which were for the most part (68 of the 99) designed and etched by Gillot, while the remaining were after drawings by Coypel, Picart, Massé, and Ranc. The frontispiece in this 1727 edition was engraved by Edelinck after Coypel. All the fable illustrations, attributed to Jongman, are surrounded by ornamental frames; the first only is signed by him.
This copy lacking 11 plates: Book I, 14; II, 10, 17; III, 4, 12; IV, 3, 15, 16; and V, 6, 7, 12.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1924 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.