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Religious print-series designed by Romeyn de Hooghe

[VIGNE, David de la] and Mr. De CHERTABLON.
La maniere de se bien preparer a la mort, par des considerations sur la cene, la passion & la mort de Jesus-Christ, avec de très-belles estampes emblematiques, expliquées par Mr. De Chertablon.
Antwerp [= Amsterdam?], George Gallet, 1700. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece ("numbered" A), mainly showing Death knocking on a door, the title page is printed in red and black, 39 numbered full-page engraved plates, and two additional full-page engraved plates ("numbered" B-C). All plates are copies (the majority in reverse) of etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary gold-tooled tan calf, with the coat of arms of the Vignerot du Plessis family, dukes of Richelieu, as a centrepiece on both boards, a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red edges. 63, [1] pp.
€ 2,500
Beautiful and inspiring series of plates, designed by the great Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), presenting a "miror of good death", and consisting of three general plates, numbered A-C, and a series of 39 numbered plates of people on their deathbeds. Intended to teach how to die well by means of pictures from the "Life of Jesus", the print-series was first published with texts in French and in Dutch by David de la Vigne, at Antwerp and Amsterdam in 1673. The plates must have gone astray as the series was published again with Dutch text by David de la Vigne in 1694, with the plates newly engraved in slightly smaller size and in reverse. Here these plates were used again, but published with new texts by De Chertablon, a Roman Catholic priest who extensively describes and explains what is shown on the plates. He also divided the plates into three series of 13 plates, each series headed by one of the general plates for frontispiece. And to the preliminaries De Chertablon added a preface discussing the origin and the fear of death, a prayer to prepare for death, and several proverbs on death in French and Latin, thus making the print-series into a school book as well.
From the library of Armand-Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, 2nd Duc de Richelieu (1629-1715). The binding shows some signs of wear, some paper repairs, and some occasional minor dust soiling and water staining. Otherwise in very good condition. Chr. Coppens, Een Ars moriendi met etsen van Romeyn de Hooghe: Verhaal van een boekillustratie (Verhand. Kon. Acad. v. Wetensch., Lett. en Schone Kunsten van België; Brussels 1995); Hollstein IX, R. de Hooghe 1128 (Dutch ed. of 1694);Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe, 84, note; Romeyn de Hooghe, de verbeelding van de late Gouden Eeuw, ed. H. van Nierop, a.o. (2008), p. 275, no. 1700.04; cf. p. 263, no. 1673.14; STCN 108164977 (4 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); USTC 1848568, 1535292 (30 copies) ; cf. STCN 036830909 (5 copies, same work but different collation); USTC 1847975, 1535293 (6 copies, same work but different collation); for the coat of arms: Olivier 2314.
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