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La Henriade

Engraved by: Louis Surugue (French, 1686–1762)
Engraved by: Charles-Nicolas Cochin le fils (French, 1715–1790)
Engraved by: Henry Fletcher (English, active 1715–1744)
Engraved by: Charles Dupuis (French, 1685–1742)
Engraved by: Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis (French, 1698–1771)
Engraved by: Louis Desplaces (French, 1682–1739)
Engraved by: Jean-Baptiste Poilly (French, 1669–1728)
Engraved by: Edme Jeaurat (French, 1688–1738)
After: Jean Francois de Troy (French, 1679–1752)
After: François Lemoine (French, 1688–1737)
After: Nicolas Vleughels (French, 1668–1737)
After: Bernard Lépicié (French, 1698–1755)
After: Michel Nicolas Micheux (French, 1688–1733)
Author: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694–1778)
1728
Place of Publication: London, England

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 32 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 29.3 x 23.3 x 3 cm (11 9/16 x 9 3/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.2398
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
London: 1728

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 1025
Description(London: 1728) Quarto; 109 leaves, plus 11 plates; nineteenth-century gilt- and blind-stamped sprinkled brown calf (William George, Bristol; within ivory phase box).

Allegorical frontispiece; illustrations to Voltaire's text; decorative vignettes
ProvenanceAcquired in 1918 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.