Centaure. Représentant le génie des jeux du cirque / A. La Borde del. ; J. Marchand sculp. – Vintage Wall Art
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Centaure. Représentant le génie des jeux du cirque / A. La Borde del. ; J. Marchand sculp., an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Centaure. Représentant le génie des jeux du cirque / A. La Borde del. ; J. Marchand sculp.
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Rather than a scene of gods, this plate shows a centaur personifying the genius of the circus games, a figure drawn from an ancient floor mosaic. A. La Borde made the drawing and J. Marchand engraved it for Alexandre de Laborde's 1802 *Description d'un pavé en mosaïque*, a study of a pavement found at Italica in southern Spain, the Roman town that produced the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. The book came from Paris under the P. Didot imprint, during a period when engravers reproduced classical finds for scholars and collectors. The color in this impression gives some sense of the original tiled surface.
| Created / published | [published 1802] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1800-1810.Engravings Color 1800-1810. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Description d'un pavé en mosaique découvert dans l'ancienne ville d'Italica / Alexandre Laborde. [Paris : P. Didot, 1802], pl. XIX. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216874 |
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