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Le Roi Louis XIII écoute la harangue du prévôt des marchands de Paris

Abraham BOSSE

1602 - 1676

Le Roi Louis XIII écoute la harangue du prévôt des marchands de Paris

1629
Frontispiece for a suite of sixteen subjects published in Pierre Rocolet’s Éloges et discours sur la triomphante Reception du Roy en sa ville de Paris, après la réduction de La Rochelle, Paris
Original etching reworked with engraving by Pierre Firens and Melchior Tavernier
304 × 231 mm, cut inside the copperplate mark
Fine impression of the second state (of 3) with the addresses of Tavernier and Firens but before changes in the lettering, restored wormhole at top left, minor thinning at edges, scattered foxing visible through transparency, remnants of glue on the reverse
Reference: Duplessis 1187, Blum 10, Join-Lambert et Préaud 49, Lothe 1465 ii/iii

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