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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1917,1208.1920
Title
Object:
Une tireuse de cartes
Series:
Galerie de S. A. R. Madame la Dauphine
Description
Interior with on the right a woman seated at a table upon which is a large open book, and reading cards to a couple standing on the left, after Marguerite Gérard. 1830 Lithograph, on chine collé
Producer name
After:
Marguerite Gérard
Print made by:
Léon Noël
Printed by:
Langlumé
Published by:
Schunck
(direxit)
School/style
French
Production date
1830
Production place
Printed in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
lithograph
Dimensions
Height:
317 millimetres
(image size)
Width:
260 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See 1917,1208.2065 for comment on set.
The print is recorded in the Bibliographie de la France: 30 October 1830, no. 1200. For a chromolithograph (with some hand-colouring) impression where the lettering does not record the name of the printer nor the series title, but includes the name of the publisher Lerendu, see 1896,0501.1648.
Location
Not on display
Subjects
fortune-teller/divination
Associated names
Associated with:
Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame Royale, Duchess of Angoulême
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
1917,1208.1920