print
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.210
- Title
- Object: J. Chalier
- Description
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Portrait of French revolutionary Joseph Chalier, bust on piedouche, directed to riht and looking upwards, balding, wearing a toga; in oval surrounded by symbols (butterfly, torch, level, cap of liberty on pike). c.1793/95
Stipple
- Production date
- 1793-1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 348 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The funeray nature of some of the symbols (the torch, the butterfly) indicatesthat the print was made after Chalier's execution by the anti-revolutionary party in Lyon, 16 July 1793.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1925,0615.210
