print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1900,1231.4998-5036
Description: A collection of thirty-nine illustrations to an unidentified French edition of Voltaire's 'Theatre'; all illustrations after Desenne, Deveria, Martinet, Choquet and Chasselat; for the plays: Olimpie; L'enfant prodigue; Sophonisbe; Catilina; Mérope; La mort de César; Les loix de Minos; DOn Pedre; Nanine; Le droit du signeur; Charlot; Samson; Socrate; Les deux tonneuax; L'indiscret; Le temple de la gloire; Tandrède; Adélaïde du Guesclin; Éryphile; Brutus; Oedipe; Les Guébres; Les Scythes; Le triumvirat; L'orphelin de la Chine; Oreste; Sémiramis; Zulime; Mahomet; Alzire; Le Duc de Foix; Zaire; Mariamne; Les Péelopides; Irène; La prude; L'Écossaise; Le dépositaire; La princesse de Navarre. Etching
Producer name: After: Alexandre Joseph Desenne; After: Pierre Martinet; After: Achille Devéria; Print made by: Claude Niquet; Print made by: Antoine Joseph Chollet; Print made by: P Mottet; Print made by: François Manceau; Print made by: Jean Baptiste Touzé; Print made by: Jean Nicolas Adam; Print made by: Hippolyte Prudhomme; Print made by: Joseph Julian Guillaume Dulompré; Print made by: Pierre Pelée; Print made by: Jean Jacques Frilley; Print made by: Derly; Print made by: Jacques Lavallée; Print made by: Jean Pierre Larcher; Print made by: Adrien Godefroy; Print made by: Eugène Edmond Emile Lejeune; After: Pierre Jean Baptiste Choquet; After: Charles Abraham Chasselat; Print made by: Henriette Couet, née Baquoy; Print made by: Pierre Baquoy; Print made by: J F Cazenave; Print made by: Jean Baptiste Michel Dupréel; Print made by: Jacques Louis Constant Le Cerf; Print made by: Georges Malbeste; Print made by: Edme Bovinet; Print made by: Jubin
School/style: French
Production date: 1815-1830 (circa)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 240 millimetres (each sheet, approx.); Width: 155 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For Ashbee's collections of prints intended for extra-illustration, see his biography. The run catalogued here contains miscellaneous impressions of illustrations to the 'Vicar of Wakefield'. Other sets of illustrations to this text from the Ashbee bequest are catalogued separately.
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Illustration to: Voltaire
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Henry Spencer Ashbee
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1900,1231.4998-5036

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