Engraver: Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu, called "Tardieu fils" or "Tardieu the younger", (1716 – 1791) was a French engraver.
Title: Idoles du Tibet tirees de Grueber. (Tibetan idols, taken from Grueber). Johann Grueber (1623 – 1680) was an Austrian Jesuit missionary and astronomer in China and a noted explorer. Wiki).
Signed, Numbered, and Titled: [The idol] Manippe [in the plate]. Beneath the image: L.l. Tardieu sculp. L.m. Idoles du Tibet tirees de Grueber. L.r. T. VII. No. V.
Dimensions: Image 7 3/8" x 5 1/2". Sheet 10" x 7".
Publisher: François Didot 1689-1757. Colleges highly esteemed this prominent publisher. He even was elected Syndic of the Booksellers' Corporation. He published "Histoire des voyages..." (20 volumes), widely recognized for polygraphy perfection.
Edition: Histoire générale des voyages ou Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à présent dans les differentes langues de toutes les nations connues,... Enrichie de Cartes géographiques. Nouvellement composées sur les observations les plus authentiques,... Nouvelle édition, revue sur l'original anglois,...[Translated from English and compiled by Prévost].
Date: 1749.
Materials and Techniques: copper-plate engraving on laid paper.
Condition: Left edge is rough cut. Trimmed margins. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Histoire des Voyages by Abbe Prevost. Paris, Tome VII, 1749.
Museums and Libraries: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Title page https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49095956
The Engraving https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49096108
Note: Mannipe is a Tibeyian deity with nine heads. Compare with Johannes Nieuhof's 'An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China' (London: 1669, Figures XVII and XXI) (The British Museum).