print
- Museum number
- 1880,0508.266
- Title
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Object: Dieu vivant!.. bruler Voltaire!!!.. quand on a des buches sous la main, et de fameuses buches.!.
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Series: Album lithographique par Charlet, 1827
- Description
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Plate no 5, in a barber's shop with books being burned outside; the barber gestures towards the doorway expressing his outrage at the burning of Voltaire; a soldier, seen in profile, stands behind the barber's client. 1827
Lithograph.
- Production date
- 1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres (image)
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Height: 327 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 137 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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La Combe notes that early versions of this print were not numbered.
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The subject is associated with the burning of Enlightenment literature under the Restoration but it does not appear to refer to a specific event.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0508.266