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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.1833
Title: Object: Dernières paroles de Mirabeau
Description: Allegorical scene on the death of Mirabeau, with the latter lying on a classical bed, and expiring in the arms of grieving France whilst pointing at left, where Truth is drawing a curtain, revealing a crowd of people fighting over the throne of France; Death is standing beside the dying orator; in the foreground, at left, the three Parcae cutting Mirabeau's thread of life, and Fate, personified by an old man crowned with stars, putting a paper inscribed with the name of Mirabeau into an urn. 1792 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Antoine Borel; Print made by: Robert de Launay; Published by: Robert de Launay; Published by: Nicolas Ponce; Printed by: De Roy
School/style: French
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 398 millimetres; Width: 269 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Advertised in 'Journal de Paris', 20 March 1792.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (125); De Vinck 1909-1967 / Collection De Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe. Inventaire analytique. (1911)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: death; allegory/personification
Associated names: Representation of: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau; Representation of: Veritas; Representation of: Fates; Representation of: Death
Associated places: Associated with: France
Associated events: Associated Event: French Revolution (Death of Mirabeau) 1791 (2 April)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.1833

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