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Object Type
Museum number: 1925,0615.253
Description: Portrait of Joseph Chalier, bust in profile to left, with powdered queue wig, cravat and jacket, against dark background; within circle Etching and aquatint
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1793-1795 (circa)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 78 millimetres (plate-mark); Width: 62 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The inscription transcribes words Chalier allegedly pronounced after his arrest in May 1793.
Bibliographic references
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: 1925,0615.253

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