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Object Type
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
Production date: 1798 (c)
Materials
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
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,1012.4180-4189

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