JACOBUS GIBBS, ARCHITECTUS.

 

(BOOKPLATE) BARON, Bernard, engraver.  JACOBUS GIBBS, ARCHITECTUS.

(London): 1736. (3 7/8 x 5 inches).

A fine Jacobean style portrait plate, titled "JACOBUS GIBBS ARCHITECTUS," dated beneath the portrait 1736 and signed B. B. S. (Bernard Baron, Sculpt.) He was a French engraver who worked in England from 1712 to 1762.  He mixed with many of England's leading artists, sculptors and architects and was one of four Frenchmen selected by William Hogarth to engrave plates for Marriage a la Mode.   Among his best known works are the plates for Life of Achilles, after Rubens, and the frontispiece portrait of James Gibbs in his Bibliotheca Radcliviana, after the Hogarth painting.  Baron's engraved plates were known in early Virginia.  His elaborate and famous fifteen plate set of the Views of the Gardens at Stowe, 1736 after drawings by Jacques Rigaud of Charles Bridgeman's designs -- were owned in colonial Virginia in the library of John Mercer of Virginia.  Very good, trimmed just to the edge of the plate mark.

 

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