print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1900,1231.5289-5309
Description: A collection of twenty-one illustrations to an unidentified French edition of Voltaire's 'La Pucelle d'Orléans'; all illustrations in rectangle with verse below and chant number above; after Chasselat. Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Charles Abraham Chasselat; Print made by: Jean François Pourvoyeur; Print made by: Henriette Couet, née Baquoy; Print made by: Adrien Godefroy; Print made by: Derly; Print made by: Augustin Burdet; Print made by: Jacques Louis Constant Le Cerf; Print made by: Jean Baptiste Michel Dupréel; Print made by: Eugène Edmond Emile Lejeune
School/style
Production date: 1790-1830 (circa)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 220 millimetres (each platemark, approx.); Width: 150 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.
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1900,1231.5289-5309

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