print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.2971
- Title
- Object: La séparation de Louis Seize, d'avec sa famille, etc
- Description
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Louis XVI, pushed towards the doorway by Simon the cobbler, turns back for a last sight of his tearful family, 1794
Stipple engraving, coloured
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 482 millimetres
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Width: 573 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Scratched-letter title and 'F.B. sculp.' from an earlier state can just be read behind the close-lettered title.
This image shows the royal family being imprisioned in the Tour de la Temple.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution 1787-1799; 1792
- 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
- 1958,0712.2971
