1620

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Source:

Title: It is the report of a court case: Procès Melchior Tavernier
Author: Louis Servin
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Location: Paris
Year: 1620
Links: [Scan].

This illustration is included in a collection of printed and manuscript materials: Collection ANISSON-DUPERRON sur la Librairie et l’Imprimerie. LIX-LXI Graveurs, dominoteurs, marchands d’estampes, 1391-1787. LIX Années 1391-1733. The documents are numbered by hand, and this illustration appears in part 13 in between pages 22 and 23.

Comments:

Roger Gaskell (2020) notes: ‘The original source is the Procès Tavernier, 1620. See Jeanne Duportal (1914) Étude sur les livres à figures édités en France de 1601 à 1660. Paris, Honoré Champion. [Scan] page 79. Plate V. has as caption: ‘Presses à imprimer en 1620. Gravure anonyme (Pièces du Procès Tavernier.) (Bibliothèque Nationale.– Département des Manuscrits. F. Fr. Ms 22.119.).

See also: Marianne Grivel (1986) ‘Le Commerce de l’estampe à Paris Au XVIIe Siècle.’ Histoire et Civilisation Du Livre 16. Genève: Librairie Droz.

Technique:

Engraving

Publications

Ad Stijnman (2012) Engraving and Etching 1400-2000: A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Process, Archetype Publications Ltd. (figure 230).