Book/Printed Material Gravelot Page View
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Image 1 of Page View- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1911
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Image 2 of Page View tr prea on OL rae- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 3 of Page View Latoard C Leoig ÂC THE GIFT OF 23 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 4 of Page View- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 5 of Page View- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of Page View GRAVELOT- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of Page View Of this Edition of GRAVELOT 100 copies only have been printed on Handmade paper of which this is a- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1911
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Image 8 of Page View- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1911
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Image 9 of Page View x Seulp 1770 1 Henrtque B RN RR BRN H Gravelot del- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of Page View AL LTS- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of Page View Bia 7 anal a a M i 4 5 PE i als i â rect a Ss re Po gr rer res oo aa a â a al a- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of Page View XVIIITa CENTURY FRENCH BOOKILLUSTRATORS GRAVELOT BY VERA SALOMONS ILLUSTRATED WITH 23 PHOTOGRAVURES FROM NEGATIVES BY THE AUTHOR LONDON JOHN EDWARD BUMPUS Lr MCMXI ALL RIGHTS RESERVED eR WE we PEER Pe IRE…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of Page View Se Sop i pre CTE RTI TOW 42 CHISWICK PRESS CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO TOOKS COURT CHANCERY LANE LONDON EVE RR EN 2 I i      E bio- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of Page View PREFACE HE end of the nineteenth century marks the revival of taste in Art if the immense rise in the value of the best produÃtions of earlier times is to be accepted…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of Page View 6 cluding a bargain Yet no series of small books ba exists which deal with the great Illustrators of the fut eighteenth century one by one The  fascicules ââ of wo…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of Page View 7 to assist the admirer of this special art but it is fair to say that small as this volume is the amount of work necessary for its production has been very…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of Page View CONTENTS PAGE II Tue Lire or GrRAVELOT Tue ART oF GRAVELOT Books ILLUSTRATED BY CATALOGUE OF 37 79 GRAVELOT List oF THE PLATES- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of Page View et rr SL Yâ â- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of Page View THE LIFE OF GRAVELOT T was during the eighteenth century that tailledouce engravings first claimed the attention of bookillustrators France leading the way both in recognizing the importance of the new departure…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of Page View 12 Thus runs the birth certificate entered on the register of the parish of SaintGermain IâAuxerrois Paris HubertFrangois took thename of â Grave lotâ after his godfather and is generally known by…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of Page View 13 came when the Duc de la Feuillade went there as ambassador he taking the youth among the suite of servants that accom panied the embassy It happened however that they never…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of Page View 14 theatre and its attendant company that his father sent him out to St Domingo with M le chevalier de la Rochalard who be came governorgeneral of the island There FrÃzier chief…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Page View 15 bhi through Duboscâs suggestion to help to en With grave the  CÃrÃmonies Religieusesâ which b Dubosc was publishing after drawings of ee Bernard Picard During the years Gravelot spent in…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of Page View 16 suggested that at one moment the British Museum intended classing him among the English artists and certainly the vignettisteâs plates often bore the anglicized name of Gravelottâ The sign of the…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of Page View 17 battle of Fontenoy in 1745 Englishmen were so bitter against their successful enemies the French that this was the possible cause of his return to his native land journeying there viz…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of Page View 18 of thirtyfour whilst he himself was over seventy one No doubt Gravelot married for the second time owing to loneliness and in consequence of failing eyesight which was depriving him of…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of Page View alivi THE ART OF GRAVELOT HE eighteenth century was so endowed with great artists that it became neces sary for some to look for new avenues of art many therefore left painting…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of Page View 20 to turn their attentions to the ornamentation ied of books The great illustrators for the most part however centred all their energies in this direction Although Gravelot has painted pictures spinets…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of Page View an ban Viitvily eabianc wu 21 fine impressions or proofs Attention is es pecially necessary for this particular school of illustration since fazlledouce plates are so delicately engraved that after a few…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of Page View 22 no doubt for a bookplate in penandink and sepia is a good instance of how far Gravelot carried the work before handing it to the engraver The draughtsman left little to…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of Page View 1 23 many of the illustrations to Shakespeare and other English works show But once back in his native land with other artists exhibiting their buoyant spirits through the medium of their…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of Page View 24 Contemporary taste and fashion are the chief elements which influence the art of its time and Gravelot reluctantly complied to a custom then in vogue of making a suite of figures…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of Page View 25 monde and their gaiety is a theme that calls forth the best powers of the petit maitres Gravelot is no exception to the rule He is not so completely at his…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of Page View 26 ing to the laws laid down by their statues The artist even drew lovely estampes and several decorative bookplates which have come down to posterity One cannot help admiring in the…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of Page View 27 and contains some of Gravelotâs masterpieces Voltaire wrote commentaries on Corneilleâs plays and started the idea of this edition the proceeds of which were to help a distant relation of Corneille…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of Page View 28 lication The King of France subscribed for two hundred copies and the Empress of Russia did likewise The names of Madame de Pompadour and the âFermiers GÃnÃrauxâ also figured in the…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of Page View 29 Que veut dire Cette lyre Câest MelpomÃne ou Claironâ Et ce Monsieur qui soupire Et fait rire Nestce pas Martin F FrÃron This plate is engraved by Choffard and was published…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of Page View 30 This frontispiece is very scarce owing to publ it having been suppressed in many copies plte of the book also colleors have been in the fatte habit of removing the plate…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of Page View vivov WY 31 published containing forgeries of Gravelotâs plates Certainly if imitation is the greatest flattery it testifies to the popularity and appreciation of the artistâs work at a time when France…- Contributor: Salomons, Vera - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1911
About this Item
Title
- Gravelot
Names
- Salomons, Vera
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : John & Edward Bumpus, 1911.
Headings
- - Gravelot, Hubert François,--1699-1773
- - Illustration of books--France--18th century
Notes
- - Added t.p., engraved.
- - Preface signed: D.L.S. [i.e. Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons]
- - "Catalogue of the best known books illustrated by Gravelot": p. 37-78.
- - "Of this edition ... 100 copies only have been printed on handmade paper"--Half title verso.
- - LC has copy no. 40, signed by the author.
- - Portrait engraving of Gravelot drawn by La Tour and engraved by J. Massard, laid down at corners on p. [8].
- - Book-plate of Howard C. Levis.
- - Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
- - LAC scc 2019-09-19 update (3 cards)
- - LAC ecr 2019-10-10 review
Medium
- 83 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- NC980.5.G7 S24 1911
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 83203174
Online Format
- online text
- image
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Contributor
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
- Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Salomons, Vera