| Method | Copper engraving with hand colouring |
| Artist | Robert Bénard after Louis-Jacques Goussier |
| Published | [ A Paris, Chez Braisson, rue Saint Jacques, à la Science. Le Breton, premier Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, rue de la Harpe. MDCCLXIX Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roy.] |
| Dimensions | Image 330 x 210 mm, Plate 355 x 225 mm |
| Notes |
Plate 20 (Cont.) from Volume 24 of the Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, depicted hand-coloured maritime flags, including those of China, Tartary, the Standard of the Emperor of China, Nanquin, Bantam, Imperial Japan, Batavia, the Standard of the Grand Mogol, Persia, Alexandretta, Tripoli, Tunis, Slavonia (Croatia), Algiers, the pirate republic of Salé (Morocco), Tétouan (Morocco), the Barbary Corsairs, Morocco, and Moorish North Africa. The Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was a French general encyclopaedia in 28 volumes published in Paris between 1751 and 1772. The general editor of the series was Denis Diderot, the celebrated Enlightenment philosopher, author, and art critic. The broad and ambitious aim of the Encyclopédie was to gather together the collected knowledge of the world into a single work. As a result, some of greatest French minds of the age were contributors, including d'Alembert, Rousseau, and Voltaire. The Encyclopédie played an important role in the development of French intellectual fervour in the lead up to the Revolution. The 17 volumes of articles were accompanied by 11 volumes of illustrative plates, the majority of which were executed by Robert Bénard after drawings by Louis-Jacques Goussier. Robert Bénard (1734- after 1778) was a French engraver, best known for executing and overseeing the printing of over 1800 illustrative plates for Diderot's seminal Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres. Following designs by Goussier, Benard engravings cover a vast array of topics, from scientific, mathematical, and biological, to heraldic, military, and maritime. Louis-Jacques Goussier (fl. 1751-1772) was a French artist and printmaker, known principally for supplying the illustrations for Diderot's Encyclopédie, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres. Goussier's drawings were intended to accompany the alphabetical entries of the 17 text volumes of the Encyclopaedia, and were engraved by Robert Bénard. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £175.00 |
| Stock ID | 37471 |