print;
book-illustration;
album
- Museum number
- 1937,0915.448.207
- Description
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Stormy landscape with at centre Clotilde and Clovis, on horseback; at right, Aurèle, in classical armour, also on horseback; with above and below the image decorative monograms, printed from separate plates; illustration to Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin 's 'Clovis, ou la France chrestienne' (Paris: Auguste Courbé, 1657). c.1657
Etching, inlaid into album sheet
- Production date
- 1657 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres (image)
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Height: 52 millimetres (monogram, bottom plate)
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Height: 70 millimetres (monogram, top plate)
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Width: 172 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1937,0915.448.205 for comment on book. For related drawing see 1946,0713.1080.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Clovis, ou la France chrestienne
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Acquisition notes
- Bound in album of ornament prints, preceded by a table of content by old French hand, with pencil annotation 'Transferred to Dept. of Prints & Drawings 18.5.37' on the third page, and with red stamp '5 NO 50' on the last print of the album.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0915.448.207