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Artist
- Name:
- Grandville, J.-J.
- Dates:
- 1803-1847
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les étoiles
- Author(s):
- Méry, Joseph, Raban, Louis-François
- Publisher:
- Paris: G. de Gonnet, n.d. [1849]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Hand-colored title of Les étoiles: dernière féerie (The stars: one last enchantment) illustrated by J.-J. Grandville and published posthumously. The texts were provided by Louis-François Raban, under the pen-name of Comte Fœlix, and Joseph Mery.
The illustration shows two female figures floating in the sky on each side of a crescent moon from which garlands of stars flow, forming a decorative chandelier-like motif around the hand-drawn title, then shooting down toward a half-visible globe bearing the authors’ and publisher’s names.
