Livre de differents Sujets de Figures et Animaux par H. Roos.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2417
Imprint
A Paris,: chez Huquier, Ruë des Mathurins, au coin de la Ruë Sorbone, [between 1749 and 1761?]
Physical Description
8 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 275×405 mm. (Oblong).
Responsibility Note
The title-plate is signed as etched by Duncker ('Duncker sculp. aqua forti'). Plates 2-8 are all signed as drawn by H. Roos, etched by Duncker and printed by Huquier ('H. Roos del. Huquier ex. Duncker sculp. a.f.').
The first and last plates carry Huquier's publisher's imprint.
References
Der Tiermaler Johann Heinrich Roos [exhibition catalog] (1985); H. Jedding, Der Tiermaler Joh. Heinr. Roos (1955).
Summary Note
The plates show sheep, goats and cows, with shepherds, goat-herds and cowherds.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
19th-century grey cloth-covered boards; 20th-century half calf, retaining earlier brown morocco spine-label lettered 'Iconologies Par Huquier'. Bound with Huquier's Iconologies [1768] and nine others.