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album
;
drawing
Object Type
album
drawing
Museum number
1859,0806.96
Description
Caricature of Marie-Louise-Rosalie Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, countess de Wateville, facing to the right: drawing from an album. Pen and brown ink
Producer name
Drawn by:
Pier Leone Ghezzi
School/style
Roman
Production date
1749
(24 March)
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
102 millimetres
Width:
74 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See 1859,0806.91 for comment and description of album. Sister-in-law of the French ambassador's to Rome (see 1859,0806.94 and 95).
Location
Not on display
Subjects
caricature
Associated names
Representation of:
Comtesse Marie Louise Rosalie de Wateville
Associated with:
Hélène Françoise Angélique Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain, Duchess of Nivernois
(the sitter's sister)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Walter Benjamin Tiffin
Acquisition date
1859
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1859,0806.96