Dec 01, 2010 - Sale 2232

Sale 2232 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(FREEMASONRY.) Assemblée de Francs-Maçons pour la Reception . . . Group of 7 (of 8) engraved plates from the series on Masonic ritual, each approximately 215x330 mm, ample margins; some soiling, closed tears, and other repairs; each mounted to a sheet of paper and matted. Lacks the final and exceedingly rare print. France, 18th century
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Little information is available on this suite of plates. Some bibliographers date them to the 17th century, while most others date them to the 18th century. The style of dress pictured suggests the second half of the 18th century. Lewine, in his 1898 Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustration, page 194, notes that the suite was reissued with the images in reverse. These prints are clearly examples of the reissue, though not on the bluish paper suggested by Lewine. They clearly date to the late 18th century.