Article: Reigning glory: 18th century Franch engraving.(Museums Today)("Prints and Illustrated Books in 18th-Century France" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)(Critical Essay)

One of the most innovative epochs in the history of printmaking--from the extravagances of the royal court to the beginning of the French Revolution--is celebrated in the exhibition "To Instruct and Delight: Prints and Illustrated Books in 18th-Century France." More than 100 prints and a dozen illustrated books reflect the dramatic changes that occurred during the reigns of King Louis XV and Louis XVI (1723-92), beginning with a sumptuous representation of the stately masked bali at Versailles where Louis XV met his future mistress and proceeding to an image of a doomed Louis XVI at the guillotine.

Original etchings, anatomical illustrations, poetry vignettes, ...

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