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By: le Syr. de Bros inuenit
Contributors: Mewes, Charles Edouard, 1889-1968, former owner
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 16uu
Place of publication: France]
Language: fre
Subjects: Mantles; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Fireplaces; Decoration and ornament; Mannerism
Notes: Comprises 4 engravings, detached from an unknown source, of fireplaces and mantles, each with an illustration of a scene of sacrifice on an altar above the mantle. Numbered in plate: XXXVIII (sacrifice of a ram); XXXVI (sacrifice of Isaac); XXXV (unidentified); XXXVII (unidentified).

Not in Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung in this form.

The relationship, if any, between these plates and the drawings Brosse made of the fireplaces in a gallery of the Luxembourg Palace for Rubens, is unknown.

Avery Classics copy: With bookplate of Charles Edouard Mewes on front pastedown and with his monogram stamped in red on first plate.