Jacques ANDROUET du CERCEAU – Vues d’optique, 1551

Fuhring p.314. Good circular impressions, after the reduction des cuivres irregularly trimmed at the platemark or into this one (the subject sometimes slightly trimmed in bord), laid down on des feuillets de vergé ancien. Traces de colle (?) sur le pourtour de five or six views whose the title. Some stains. Set of a title, twenty one vues d’optique (VO8 and VO17) each in two versions slightly differents), the church in ruins with the Nativity after le Maître JG and a roman ruin. He his missing to the set VO7. The set included here 24 plates. Edition ca 1560-1580, during the artist’s lifetime (there will be a 3rd edition at the beginning of XVIIth century). Rare.