print
- Museum number
- 1925,0615.385
- Title
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Object: Le Borlhe de Grand'Pré, curé d'Oradour Fanois : député de la Basse Marche
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Series: Collection générale des Portraits de MM. les Deputés des trois Ordres assemblés à Versailles en 1789
- Description
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Portrait of Philippe Leborlhe de Grandpré, bust directed to right, with powdered hair and cassock; in oval frame surmounted by ribbon and garland of oak leaves; in the lower part, snake coiled around a mirror. 1790
Manière de lavis, with etched border
- Production date
- 1790
- Dimensions
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Height: 236 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 179 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series representing the deputies of the Assemblée Nationale, see 1881,0709.32.
- 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
- 1925,0615.385