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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.2075
Title: Object: Vue de la Salpètrière prise du boulevard; Series: Voyage pittoresque de la France
Description: View of the Salpètrière Hospital in Paris, after Savard, with in the left foreground prostitutes in a cart escorted by guards who are taking them to the hospital, where they will be held prisoner; the hospital is in the background, at right. c.1781/96 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Savard; Print made by: Marie Alexandre Duparc
School/style
Production date: 1781-1796
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 247 millimetres; Width: 372 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1917,1208.4192 for comment. Published in volume IV of 'Voyage Pittoresque'.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Paris (La Salpètrière)
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: 1917,1208.2075

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