print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1900,1231.5254
- Title
- Object: Henriade Book IV
- Description
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The Parisian mob led by Discord; on the right a seated female figure protecting the lamb and the Book with seven seals watches them walk past her; on the left, Charles de Lorraine and other men watching from a balcony; in border with festoons on top and on the sides; illustration to Voltaire's 'L'Henriade' in the London edition of the works of Voltaire, by Fielding and Walker. c.1778-1780
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1778-17800-1790 (or later)
- Dimensions
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Height: 167 millimetres
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Width: 115 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the London edition of Voltaire's works, with illustrations copied from the Geneva quarto edition of the 'Collection complette des Oeuvres de Voltaire' published between 1768-74, see comment on 1900,1231.4967-4997.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Henriade
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,1231.5254
