print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.691
- Title
- Object: Jacque Balma dit le Mont Blanc
- Description
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Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure.
Etching with hand-colouring.
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 281 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 217 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the same image, see 1958,0712.692 and 1958,0712.699.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: First ascent of Mont Blanc 1786 (8 August)
- 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
- 1958,0712.691
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 580
