Tousjours [sic] entre les bras de la Mort - Officier de la marine.

Late 17th-early 18th c

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Description du lot

Hand-coloured engraving with paint and goldpaint, 26,6 x 18,1 cm (sheet), laid paper, signed "N. Guerard inv. et fecit.", French text (cut inside platemark, sl. soiled).

Framed.

Allegorical print of a naval officer who has to rely on his instruments in the face of danger and the threat of death: a chart, a pair of dividers, a sounding line, compass, protractor, etc.
Ref. British Museum, inv. 2015,7041.1

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