Ludolph SMIDS, Adriaan SCHOONEBEEK
Pictura loquens
Ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek.|Amstelodami [Amsterdam] • (Amsterdam) 1695|9 x 16 cm|relié
The rare first edition, with a frontispiece and 61 illustrations.
Brown sheep, spine with decorated raised bands, roulette to head and foot, red morocco title piece. Three corners bumped.
A good and fresh copy.
The work puts together on two pages an extract from a literary work and its interpretation by Smids, as well as an illustration of a mythological scene by Schoonebeek (Alcestis, Hercules, Medea, Oedipus, etc...). The latter was a student of Romain de Hooghe, whose influence is clearly visible.
This work is a magnificent example of the baroque illustrated book, alongside the La Fontaine of Romain de Hooghe.
Brown sheep, spine with decorated raised bands, roulette to head and foot, red morocco title piece. Three corners bumped.
A good and fresh copy.
The work puts together on two pages an extract from a literary work and its interpretation by Smids, as well as an illustration of a mythological scene by Schoonebeek (Alcestis, Hercules, Medea, Oedipus, etc...). The latter was a student of Romain de Hooghe, whose influence is clearly visible.
This work is a magnificent example of the baroque illustrated book, alongside the La Fontaine of Romain de Hooghe.
€1,500