The domestic life of Martin Luther at Wittenberg: Luther plays the lute, his wife and children listen, along with Melanchthon. Engraving by J.D. Nargeot after P.A. Labouchère.

A woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.

An Inca priest makes a sacrifice to the sun; representing the continent of America. Stipple engraving by J.D. Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

Three women and five men gathered in a room which opens up to classical architecture, the group on the left is making music while the others are engaged in conversation; representing the continent of Europe. Stipple engraving by Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

People and scenery representing the continent of Africa. Stipple engraving by J.D. Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Line engraving by Nargeot after J. Boilly.

Vincenzo Dandolo. Stipple engraving by J. D. Nargeot after Augustine Fauchery.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist, Saint Rufina and Saint Justina with pieces of their pottery, and Saint Francis of Assisi. Engraving by J.D. Nargeot after Sandoz after B.E. Murillo.

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<p>Left, a man wearing a feather head-dress stands next to a smoking altar and points towards the rising sun. Centre, women in prayer and devotion. Right, a young man with a bow and arrows. Possibly a subject in the novel Les Incas by Marmontel (1778) or the opera Alonso e Cora by Francesco Bianchi and Giuseppe Foppa. Leblanc mentions prints of "Les Incas" by Nargeot (Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, vol. 3, p. 91). The woman in the centre would be Cora and the young man Tito Zoraï (Les Incas chapter III)</p>

1 print : stipple engraving, with etching ; image 25.1 x 35.9 cm

<p>"Described in Domestic life. (Scene: A room in Luther's house at Wittemberg; on the walls are portraits of the reformer's friends.) Luther, with his children, John, Paul, Martin, and Magdalen. Margaret in her mother's arms. Luther's greatest happiness, next to that which he derived from the Word of God, was to live in the bosom of his family. Imagine him one day, in the year 1536, seated at a table strewn with books; at his left his first-born John, then twelve years old, was learning his lesson; at the foot of the table was little Paul, a boy of three, with a picture-book upon his knee, which Martin, who was two years older, was explaining as he turned over the leaves. In the bay window sat Magdalen, a girl between seven and eight years old, learning to sew, and their mother Catherine holding the baby Margaret in her arms, and looking tenderly at the two younger boys lying on the floor. Melanchthon, seated in a corner of the room with his books, contemplated this pleasing sight, as did the dog also, who lay stretched in front of the illustrious doctor. Luther had taken his lute and sung one of his noble hymns. When he had finished, he put down the instrument, looked round him, fixing his eyes by turns on his wife, his children, and his friend. "There is nothing sweeter", he said, "nothing more beautiful than a happy marriage, where the husband and wife live together in peace and concord. It is the best gift of Heaven, next to the knowledge of God and of His Word. . . . . Catherine", he continued, turning to his wife, "you have a husband who fears God and loves you. In this you are happier than an empress, as other godly women are. Be sensible of your happiness, and give thanks to God.""--Merle d'Aubigné, loc. cit.</p>

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Nargeot, Jean Denis, 1795-

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An Inca priest makes a sacrifice to the sun; representing the continent of America. Stipple engraving by J.D. Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Vincenzo Dandolo. Stipple engraving by J. D. Nargeot after Augustine Fauchery.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Line engraving by Nargeot after J. Boilly.

The domestic life of Martin Luther at Wittenberg: Luther plays the lute, his wife and children listen, along with Melanchthon. Engraving by J.D. Nargeot after P.A. Labouchère.

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Nargeot, Jean Denis, 1795-

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An Inca priest makes a sacrifice to the sun; representing the continent of America. Stipple engraving by J.D. Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Vincenzo Dandolo. Stipple engraving by J. D. Nargeot after Augustine Fauchery.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Line engraving by Nargeot after J. Boilly.

The domestic life of Martin Luther at Wittenberg: Luther plays the lute, his wife and children listen, along with Melanchthon. Engraving by J.D. Nargeot after P.A. Labouchère.

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