print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1900,1231.5357-5377
Description: A collection of twenty-one illustrations to Voltaire's 'La Pucelle d'Orléans' (Paris: Menard & Desenne, 1817[?]); all illustrations after Desenne in rectangle, with verse below. Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Alexandre Joseph Desenne; Published by: Ménard & Desenne; Print made by: Philippe Joseph Augustin Vallot (?); Print made by: Jean Marie Leroux; Print made by: Achille Lefèvre; Print made by: Antoine François Gelée; Print made by: Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont; Print made by: Alfred Johannot; Print made by: Tony Johannot; Print made by: Louis Jean Désiré Delaistre; Print made by: E Mague; Print made by: Alexandre Vincent Sixdeniers; Print made by: Pierre Michel Adam; Print made by: Auguste Thomas Marie Blanchard (?)
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Production date: 1817 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 245 millimetres (each sheet, approx.); Width: 160 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: 1900,1231.5357-5377

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