drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1866,1013.544
- Description
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Julia and Saint-Preux at Meillerie, illustration of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'Nouvelle Héloise', part IV, letter 17; the two figures standing on a cliff surrounded by mist, trees and rocky cliffs behind them, mountains amid mist in the distance. 1785
Pen and grey ink, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 522 millimetres
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Width: 375 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Etched by the artist, the print being completed in aquatint by Jukes and Pollard (BM impression: 1870,0514.2950).
Lit.: M. Webster, 'Francis Wheatley', London, 1970, p. 63, fig. 69
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1965 Leeds City Art Gallery and Aldeburgh Festival, 'Francis Wheatley RA 1747-1801', no. 40
1968, Jan-Feb, Detroit Institute of Arts, 'Romantic Art in Britain' no. 76
1968, Mar-Apr, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'Romantic Art in Britain', no. 76
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Nouvelle Héloise
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,1013.544