print
- Museum number
- 1889,0806.36
- Title
- Object: Tableau magique de Zémire et Azor (The magical mirror of Zemire and Azor)
- Description
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In a rich interior, with lambris and columns adorned with garlands of flowers, Zemire, standing on the right, sees her father and her two sisters in a large mirror standing in the middle; on the left stands Azor, the beast; scene from Grétry's opera 'Zemire et Azor'
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1760-1792 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 455 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 329 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For proof before letter, see 1922,0410.305.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- 1889,0806.8 to 53 were all purchased from William Walker for a total of £49 7s 6d. A few prices have been entered individually. Colvin's report dated 30 July 1889 stated that all of them came from the collection of Lord Ronald Gower.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0806.36