print
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.138
- Title
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Object: L'embuscade
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 132: at night, a soldier (condottiere) waits in ambush behind rocks, his right leg and hand resting on a boulder, his left hand on the visor of his plumed helmet, looking out, his sword hanging by his side; after Adrien Guignet
Lithograph, on chine collé
- Production date
- 1855-1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres (image size)
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Width: 195 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression of this print, also from 'Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes', see 1936,0302.16.37. For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
According to the list of plates in the third volume of the bound set (1936,0302.16.1-49), the man is a condottiere.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- 1880,0710.1 to 250 constitute a series of plates for 'Les artistes anciens et modernes' from 1842-60.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.138