print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1900,1231.5126-5137
Description: A collection of twelve illustrations to Voltaire's 'Romans' (Paris: Menard & Desenne, 1817[?]); all illustrations after Desenne. Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Alexandre Joseph Desenne; Published by: Ménard & Desenne; Print made by: Jean Jacques Frilley; Print made by: Etienne Devilliers; Print made by: Jean Bosq; Print made by: Narcisse Lecomte; Print made by: Jean Marie Delattre (?); Print made by: Hippolyte Prudhomme; Print made by: Alfred Johannot; Print made by: Jean Marie Leroux; Print made by: Louis Hercule Sisco
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Production date: 1817 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 240 millimetres (each sheet, approx.); Width: 155 millimetres
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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. The only edition found by Menard & Desenne is that of 1817, but the images of the book are different than the ones here; it is possible the book had different illustrations; or that this is a later edition.
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1900,1231.5126-5137

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