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Object Type
print
Museum number
1872,1012.4180-4189
Title
Series:
Tableaux Historiques De La Révolution Française
Description
Group of 10 plates for the series 'Tableaux Historiques De La Révolution Française' bound together with other plates for the third volume, showing figures of the French Revolution, each plate with half-length portrait in circle by Levachez, with scene of the Revolution in rectangle by Duplessi-Bertaux (or name of the sitter) and biography of the sitter below, within rectangular frame. Mezzotint, etching and engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Charles François Gabriel Levachez
Print made by:
Jean Duplessi-Bertaux
(also draughtsman)
After:
Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
School/style
French
Production date
1798
(c)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
etching
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
455 millimetres
(approx. size of sheet)
Width:
300 millimetres
Curator's comments
See 1872,1012.2492 for comment. This series was bound in 3 volumes at the BM bindery, in green leather with gold lettering on spine, raised bands and marbled endpapers. Each volume has various sets of registrations numbers but have been catalogued as a single entry when possible. Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
Portrait of:
Jacques Pierre Brissot
Portrait of:
Antoine Samuel Bonnier
Portrait of:
Jean Baptiste Carrier
Portrait of:
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès
Portrait of:
Charles François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance
Portrait of:
Louis Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Neuchâtel
Portrait of:
Guillaume Marie Anne Brune
Portrait of:
Karl XIV Johan, King of Sweden and Norway (Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)
Portrait of:
Pierre de Riel, marquis de Beurnonville
Associated places
Associated with:
France
Associated events
Associated Event:
French Revolution 1789
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Edward Daniell
Acquisition date
1872
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1872,1012.4180-4189