Philip Hofer collection of François Chauveau drawings for Metamorphoses d'Ovide

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Philip Hofer collection of François Chauveau drawings for Metamorphoses d'Ovide

1676

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03108/catalog

Collection includes 37 preparatory drawings in red and black chalk for the etchings created by Chauveau as illustrations for Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in Paris in 1676. Most drawings represent details of the etchings. Each drawing was identified by the collector by the page number in the published volume, Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux. A Paris : De L'imprimerie royal, 1676.

.3 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984

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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...