Live auction - Lot 613
Plate with 3 vignettes for the "Aventures de Télémaque" by Fénelon.
[Liège, c. 1793]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
14,8 x 31,8 cm, each vignette: +/- 12 x 7,3 cm, sign. "Jehotte S." (sm. hole in the upper corners, without loss).
Nice engravings made for the Liège edition printed by Lemarié in 1793. Each one has a caption and the number of the book it illustrates: "Hégésippe vient annoncer à Philoclès son rappel auprès d'Idoménée" (Livre XIV), "Philoctète accorde son amitié à Télémaque et lui raconte ses aventures" (Livre XV), "Adraste surprend l'armée des alliés, combat Phalante et tue Hippias" (Livre XVI). Jehotte (1772-1851) is especially known as engraver of the medals of the Principality of Liège.
Ref. De Theux 575. - Micha, Alfred - Les graveurs liégeois. Liège, 1908, p. 104.