Live auction - Lot 496
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Tousjours [sic] entre les bras de la Mort - Officier de la marine.
Late 17th-early 18th c
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Engr., 18 x 26,5 cm, hand-coloured with gilt details (sm. defects).
Framed.
Allegorical print about a naval officer who has to rely on his instruments in the face of various dangers and the threat of death: a chart, a pair of dividers, a sounding line, a compass, protractor, etc. Without the printing address.
Ref. British Museum 2015, 7041.1.