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Frontispiece for Fontenelle’s “La Pluralité des Mondes”

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger and Charles Joseph Natoire

Frontispiece for Fontenelle’s “La Pluralité des Mondes”

1747

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Frontispiece for Fontenelle’s “La Pluralité des Mondes”

1747

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (cut within platemark): 131 × 82 mm. (5 3/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.803

Inscribed: Recto: in plate, lower right: "C.N. Cochin filius Sculp."; in plate, at lower left: "C. Natoire inv." Verso: at center, in graphite: "14-17.M.H"; at lower left, in graphite: "1158 [in diamond]"

Markings: CM: verso, at lower left: Claghorn stamp

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