Main entry:

Boillot, Joseph, approximately 1560-approximately 1603.

Title & Author:

Novveavx povrtraitz et figvres de termes pour vser en l'architecture : compozez & enrichiz de diuersité d'animaulx, representez au vray, selon l'antipathie & contrarieté naturelle de chacun d'iceulx / par Ioseph boillot Lengrois ...

Publication:

Imprime a Lẽgres [i.e. Langres] : Par Jehã des Prey, [1592]

Description:

[134] p. : ill. (woodcuts, etchings), port. ; 34 cm.

Notes:
Title within engraved illustrated frame from 2 plates.
Dedicatory remarks dated 1er janvier 1592.
Animal ill. consist of 39 signed etchings and 16 woodcuts by Boillot, an etched port., woodcut head and tail pieces, initials and a concluding engraving of a beturbaned head (Robert-Dumesnil 62). Two head pieces used display device of Boillot, and one, a medallion used by the printer himself in other works, here however with the initials I B added.
Signatures: maltese cross¡A-H¡I€ (A3 signed A4, C5 signed C3).
Introductory text includes 3 poetic contributions addressed to Boillot.
Mortimer, R. French 16th cent., 108
Robert-Dumesnil, A.-P.-F. Peintre-graveur français, VI, p. 70-87, no. 1-64
Inv. fonds français. XVIe s., p. 98-114
Library copy: Acquired with the support of Bronfman, de Gunzburg, Seagram Fund for Acquisitions.
Library copy: presented to Humphrey Repton in 1812; stamp of ownership by his son, John Adey Repton, FSA.
Library copy: bound (2) with: Architectura, vonn Ausstheijlung der fünff Seülen, und aller darausz folder Kunst und arbeit von Festern, Camin, Thürgerichten, Portale, Brunen und Epitaphie ... / durch Daniel Mahler. Frankfurt : Auch daselbsten Gedruckt Johann Diedrich de Bry, 1612.

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "En chantier, les collections du CCA, 1989-1999 = En chantier, the collections of the CCA, 1989-1999", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 24, 1999-Apr. 30, 2000.
Exhibited: "En chantier, les collections du CCA, 1989-1999 = En chantier, the collections of the CCA, 1989-1999", Centre canadien d'architecture, Nov. 24, 1999-Apr. 30, 2000.

Subject:

Animals in art.
Agonistic behavior in animals in art.
Decoration and ornament Animal forms.
Columns.
Décoration et ornement Motifs animaux.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 86411
Call No.: ID93B1873
Status: Available