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Object Type
Museum number: 1925,0615.223
Title: Object: Le citoyen Bonnier, ministre de la République Française, au Congrès de Rastadt en 1797, 1798 et 1799; Object: Portraits des membres du Congrès de Rastadt
Description: Portrait of French statesman Bonnier d'Alco, bust in profile to left, in oval. c.1797/99 Stipple, printed in brown
Producer name: Print made by: Christophe Guérin; After: F Hof; Published by: Johann Decker
School/style
Production date: 1797-1799 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Basel
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 300 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 222 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: From a series of portraits representing the diplomats sent at the Congress of Rastadt (1797-99).
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (undescribed); De Vinck 1909-1967 / Collection De Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe. Inventaire analytique. (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres (L.1685c); Purchased through: Sotheby's (29/30.iv.1925); Purchased through: Thomas Agnew & Sons
Previous owner
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: 1925,0615.223

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