print;
advertisement
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.1270
- Title
- Object: Le Colporteur Genevois
- Description
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An advertisement for a boutique, listing the items on sale; in the centre is an image depicting a Genevan pedlar standing in profile before a river; he wears a long blue coat lined with red, with a black neck scarf and hat and a white wig; his mouth hangs open and he carries a basket which is lettered with the objects he is selling; the lists of items available are lettered in the borders around the image.
Image in etching with hand-colouring.
Manuscript lettering in pen and ink.
- Production date
- 1702-1766 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 294 millimetres (image)
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Width: 305 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Pen and ink version of a print of the same subject, in which the image of the pedlar is in reverse. See 1958,0712.1269.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0712.1270
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 2161