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The Creation of the Elements, from Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide, Traduction nouvelle Avec le texte latin, suivie d'une analyse de l'explication des Fables, de notes géographiques, historiques, mythologiques et critiques, Par M.G.T. Villenave; ornée de gravures d'après les dessins de MM. LeBarbier, Monsiau et Moreau. A Paris, Chez les Éditeurs, F. Gay Libraire, rue de la Harpe, Bureau de la Bible; Ch. Guestard, Avocat, rue Saint Germain-l'Auxerrois. De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné. MDCCCVI.

Ovid|Louis Michel Halbou|Jean Jacques François Le Barbier|Pierre Didot l'ainé|F. Gay|Ch. Guestard|Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave

1804

Attribution
| |After| | | | Ovid|Louis Michel Halbou|Jean Jacques François Le Barbier|Pierre Didot l'ainé|F. Gay|Ch. Guestard|Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave | | | | | | Roman, Sulmo 43 BCE–17 CE Tomis, Moesia|French, 1730–1809 Paris|French, Rouen 1738–1826 Paris|French, 1761–1853|French|French|French, Haute-Garonne 1762–1846 Paris
Medium
Etching
Physical dimensions
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in. (35.2 × 25.5 cm) Plate: 12 13/16 × 9 5/8 in. (32.5 × 24.5 cm)
Credit line
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
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