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Object Type
print
Museum number
1925,0615.257
Description
Portrait of a man identified by a handwritten annotation as Ferriere, half-length in profile to left, with top hat and jacket, against cloudy background, within oval. 1808 Etching and aquatint
Producer name
Print made by:
Edme Quénedey
School/style
French
Production date
1808
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
aquatint
Dimensions
Height:
100 millimetres
(plate-mark)
Width:
81 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Patrick Ferrière
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
Previous owner/ex-collection:
James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
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
1925,0615.257