![]() ![]() Hobbes wrote Leviathan while in exile in Paris between 16. The first to link the two traditions were M.Corbett and R.Lightbown in 'The Comely Frontispiece', London 1979, pp.219-30, and the reader can be referred to their text for a full commentary. Mariette in the eighteenth century knew this, and from him the knowledge descended to Bosse's French cataloguers (see A.Blum, 'L'Oeuvre Gravé d'Abraham Bosse', Paris 1924, no.604). The Abbé de Marolles had included an impression in his collection under Bosse's name before it was purchased for Louis XIV in 1667. British writers traditionally listed it as anonymous, not realising that from the middle of the seventeenth century French authors had known that it was by Abraham Bosse. The history of the attribution of this frontispiece is curious. Curator's comments (Text from Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 2005 cat.105) ![]()
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