print;
frontispiece;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1877,1013.1883
- Title
- Object: La Ceremonie du Malade Imaginaire
- Description
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Frontispiece to "Receptio Publica Unius Juvenis Medici" (Lyons, Perrin and Marinet) 1870; showing a man and woman on stage in eighteenth-century costume with orchestra pit below. Flanked by men holding crossed syringes with further players in the background, including two men in a pulpit, above whom is a banner marked "Dignus est entrare/ in nostro docto corpore".
Etching
- Production date
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres (plate mark)
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Height: 222 millimetres (sheet size)
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Height: 277 millimetres (size of album page)
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Width: 120 millimetres
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Width: 140 millimetres
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Width: 219 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print, and the "Receptio Publica" to which it serves as the frontispiece, is bound with a set of portraits of the "Troupe de Molière" (see 1877,1013.1936 to 1968).
Hillemacher's "Théatre de J. B. Poquelin de Molière" (1863-1870), with 166 vignettes, is kept at 191*.a.9 (see 1877,1013.1969 to 2134).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,1013.1883
