print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1914,0228.2435
- Title
- Object: Jac. aug. Thuanus in Suprema Parisiensi Curia Praeses Infulatus
- Description
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Portrait of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, bust-length, slightly turned to the right, with short cropped hair, wearing a ruff and clothes with fur facings; in lettered oval, on plinth; illustration to "Histoire universelle de Jacques-Auguste de Thou depuis 1543 jusqu'en 1607, traduite sur l'édition latine de Londres" ("London", actually Paris, 1734)
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1734
- Dimensions
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Height: 210 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 133 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a portrait generally attributed to Ferdinand Elle; see for instance plate by Morin, 1870,0625.819.+.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Histoire Universelle
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- Stamped at the back: "British Museum / 10 NO 1900", in yellow.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1914,0228.2435
