print;
book-illustration(?)
- Museum number
- 1870,0514.2406
- Description
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Vignette on the marriage of the Dauphin Louis and the Infanta Marie-Thérèse of Spain: portrait ovals of the dauphin and the infanta facing each other, supported by dolphins and set on clouds, surrounded by putti, Cupid holding a wreath over the portraits; decorative frame composed of architectural and building tools, including compasses, rules, axes and trowels.
Etching
- Production date
- 1745 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres
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Width: 87 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an album of Andrew Lawrence's works, for which see 1870,0514.2357. Major, in his Memoir at the beginning of the album, describes this as a vignette to the print registered as 1870,0514.2405, the frontispiece to Voltaire & Rameau's ballet, 'La Princesse de Navarre', for which see comment. In the same album see also 1870,0514.2401, another print etched by Lawrence after Sève.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Marriage of Louis XV and Marie-Therese, Infanta of Spain 1745
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Princesse de Navarre (?)
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,0514.2406
