1697 BACCHUS WINE VINEYARD Virgil 32 cm CLEYN hand colored MASTER ENGRAVING

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1697 BACCHUS WINE VINEYARD Virgil 32 cm CLEYN hand colored MASTER ENGRAVING:
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1697 BACCHUS WINE VINEYARD Virgil 32 cm CLEYN hand colored MASTER ENGRAVING 1697 BACCHUS WINE VINEYARD Virgil 32 cm CLEYN hand colored MASTER ENGRAVING

Cleyn after Wenceslas Hollar

Superb Master Engraving issued for Dryden\'s rare English edition of Virgil.

The works of Virgil containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis : adorn\'d with a hundred sculptures / translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden.

Virgil., Virgil. Bucolica., Virgil. Georgica., Virgil. Aeneis., Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1697.

12.5 x 8.7 inches ; 32 x 22 cms

Engravings for this series constitute Francis Cleyn’s most important contribution to book illustration.

“The illustrations are remarkable for their attentiveness to the narrative and descriptive details, yet it would be a mistake to regard Cleyn as a bland imitator of Vergil or an artist lacking in creativity and originality… He is both a skilled craftsman and, at his best, a subtle and insightful interpreter of Vergil… Cleyn’s rigorous attention to detail stems less from a pedantic desire to transform word into image than from a deliberate attempt to serve a particular 17th-century aesthetic— one that that favors ornateness and an intricacy of design within a tightly compressed visual space… He had a habit of bringing together several separate, though related, narrative moments in a single image” (David J. Califf).

This splendid plate, greatly impressed contemporaries, including John Dryden, who “borrowed” them for his own translation of Virgil in 1697.

Excellent overall condition.

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