Le theatre des bons engins, auquel sont contenuz cent emblemes moraulx

La Perrière, Guillaume de, 1499-1565, Tournes, Jean de, 1504-1564, printer, Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561, engraver, attributed name, Hoym, Karl Heinrich, Graf von, 1694-1736, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1546 · Lyon, I. de Tournes, 1546. · 101 pictures

Le theatre des bons engins is a 1546 emblem book printed in Lyon by Jean de Tournes, with verses by Guillaume de La Perriere and woodcuts attributed to Bernard Salomon, made for a humanist readership. Its small woodcut scenes show allegorical figures in landscapes and interiors, with a clean, expressive line a designer could borrow for compact narrative vignettes.

Early works to 1800 · Emblems · France · Lyon

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