print;
costume print
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1677
- Title
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Object: La lettre
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Series: Galerie fashionable
- Description
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Plate 1; a woman sitting at her desk and melting a sealing wax stick whilst holding a letter in her free hand; a child stands by her side, holding a spoon; nearby stands a woman, holding the candle for melting the wax. July 1832
Lithograph
- Production date
- July 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 179 millimetres (image)
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Width: 136 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was listed in the 'Bibliographie de la France' for 7 July 1832 (no.460). It is part of a series of 12 lithographs. Devéria treated in this series costume and genre subjects. Beatrice Farwell (p.79) has pointed out that the scene is close to a painting by the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Terborch and that the word 'fashionable' mirrors the knowledge of English due to the French emigrated during the Restoration.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Galerie fashionable
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1677
