Author: ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste
Title: Caricatures de J.J. 1818. à Paris
Description: Paris: Chez l’auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. Isabey’s Grotesque and Indelicate Caricatures [ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste]. Caricatures de J.J. 1818. à paris. Paris: Chez l’auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches; 260 x 365 mm.). Publisher's lithograph pale pink wrapper as title-page and twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by C. Motte. All plates mounted on guards. The plates vary in size from approximately 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (248 x 314 mm.) to 10 1/4 x 14 5/16 inches (260 x 364 mm.). Late nineteenth-century (ca. 1880) quarter green roan over marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original pink lithographed wrappers bound in. Spine faded to brown, extremities lightly rubbed. Some light foxing and occasional soiling. Short neatly repaired 3/4 inch tear to outer blank margin of Plate 10, not affecting image. Overall, an excellent copy. “These twelve pseudonymous designs were the pastimes of Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a miniature painter of repute, who was the father of Eugène Isabey. Of great verve and spirit in themselves, their grotesque figures, tall or short, fat or thin, provide a link with English caricature of the previous quarter of a century, particularly the work of Thomas Rowlandson. Isabey’s situations are as gross and indelicate as his people. Indeed, ‘A game of whist’ (plate X) is among the least outré of his designs. This album foreshadows what was to be the prevailing style among caricaturists of manners in the early 1820s-The series is far livelier than another set of lithographs by Isabey, to which he signed his name, the thirty plates of his Voyage en Italie of 1822” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). “Cette suite de caricatures est intéressante pour les modes de l’epoque [This series of caricatures is interesting for the costumes of the time]” (Colas). Beraldi VIII, 153; Colas 1519. Hiler, p. 468. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 101. . .
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Title: Caricatures de J.J. 1818. à Paris
Description: Paris: Chez l’auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. Isabey’s Grotesque and Indelicate Caricatures [ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste]. Caricatures de J.J. 1818. à paris. Paris: Chez l’auteur et chez Alphonse Giroux, 1818. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches; 260 x 365 mm.). Publisher's lithograph pale pink wrapper as title-page and twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by C. Motte. All plates mounted on guards. The plates vary in size from approximately 9 3/4 x 12 3/8 inches (248 x 314 mm.) to 10 1/4 x 14 5/16 inches (260 x 364 mm.). Late nineteenth-century (ca. 1880) quarter green roan over marbled boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original pink lithographed wrappers bound in. Spine faded to brown, extremities lightly rubbed. Some light foxing and occasional soiling. Short neatly repaired 3/4 inch tear to outer blank margin of Plate 10, not affecting image. Overall, an excellent copy. “These twelve pseudonymous designs were the pastimes of Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a miniature painter of repute, who was the father of Eugène Isabey. Of great verve and spirit in themselves, their grotesque figures, tall or short, fat or thin, provide a link with English caricature of the previous quarter of a century, particularly the work of Thomas Rowlandson. Isabey’s situations are as gross and indelicate as his people. Indeed, ‘A game of whist’ (plate X) is among the least outré of his designs. This album foreshadows what was to be the prevailing style among caricaturists of manners in the early 1820s-The series is far livelier than another set of lithographs by Isabey, to which he signed his name, the thirty plates of his Voyage en Italie of 1822” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book). “Cette suite de caricatures est intéressante pour les modes de l’epoque [This series of caricatures is interesting for the costumes of the time]” (Colas). Beraldi VIII, 153; Colas 1519. Hiler, p. 468. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 101. . .
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Price: US$ 6500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05962
- Book number: 05962
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