print
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.190
- Title
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Object: Meyer
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Series: Portraits des membres du Congrès de Rastadt
- Description
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Portrait of German diplomat Meyer: man, bust-length, in profile to left, with prominent nose, white wig curled on the sides, and dark blue jacket; within oval. c.1797/99
Hand-coloured stipple
- Production date
- 1797-1799 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 292 millimetres
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Width: 220 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of portraits representing the diplomats sent at the Congress of Rastadt (1797-99).
This plate is not described in IFF.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Congress of Rastadt 1797-1799
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- The BM bought 45 lots at the 1925 sale of the Lindsay library collection of French revolutionary and Napoleonic era prints through Agnew's for a total of £92 17s (1925,0615.131 to 466). The collection had been formed by the vendor's father, the 26th Earl. The BM acquired many other prints from the same collection at other times.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0615.190
