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53 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 22 cm
Collection of 53 engravings by Nicolas Hanri Tardieu with captions, on scenes from the New Testament on the life of Christ, gathered and sewn into an album. Most of the scenes are arranged more or less in order of the liturgical calendar, from the Annunciation to Pentecost. The last four engravings are portraits of the authors of the four Gospels.
Date of the collection estimated from the binding, which appears to be from the mid to late 18th century. The individual engravings were produced earlier.
Based on paintings by de la Fosse, Verdier, Bertin, Arnout, Boullogne, Cottelle, Champagne, Marot, Raphael, C. le Brun.
Some leaves are numbered by hand in ink.
Includes biblical references in some of the captions.
Captions in French, except for one in Latin (the Crucifixion with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene, leaf 38).