BONNET, Louis-Marin
(1736-93):

A Map with battle positions in the vicinity of Lille, plate VIII from La defense et l’attaque des petites postes, published in 1783

Engraving, printed in blue, yellow, rose and black à la poupée, ca. 1783. Hérold 878 and page 28

A fine, fresh impression with the colours strong, trimmed inside the platemark but well outside the borderline all round. A centre fold visible on the verso, in very good condition. 230-235 x 367mm.
$675

Bonnet was one of the most innovative colour printers of his century, more often engraving figurative or floral images. Here the precision of his à la poupée application of pigment is astonishingly precise and what is just a military map becomes a thing of beauty.