print
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.462
- Title
- Object: La Fontaine
- Description
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Portrait of French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, half-length, facing front with head turned to left, in oval frame placed above a pedestal illustrated with scene representing the wolf and the lamb, and decorated with garland of flower
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1763-1827
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 163 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- A copy in reverse of a print engraved by Etienne Ficquet after Rigaud in 1763; for an impression see 1868,0822.2225.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.462