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print
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book of prints
Object Type
print
book of prints
Museum number
1977,U.26-63
Title
Object:
Galerie Universelle
Description
A book of 38 portrait prints from Blaisot's "Galerie Universelle", showing eminent men and women of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, in bust-length vignettes with names, titles and dates inscribed below. Bound in nineteenth-century marbled boards. Lithographs Engraving
Producer name
Published by:
Blaisot
School/style
French
Production date
1820s
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
lithograph
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
283 millimetres
(approx. sheet size of each page)
Width:
202 millimetres
Curator's comments
Many of the pages bear platemarks, even though the portrait vignettes are lithographic, suggesting that the textual inscriptions were printed from copperplates.
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian cleric
philosopher
draughtsman/painter
author/poet
Associated names
Portrait of:
Pope Pius VII
Portrait of:
Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Berry
Portrait of:
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino and Musignano
Portrait of:
Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry
Portrait of:
Charles X, King of France and Navarre
Portrait of:
Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis
Portrait of:
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (known as Lord Cochrane)
Portrait of:
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Portrait of:
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
Portrait of:
Charles Ignace, Comte de Peyronnet
Portrait of:
Prince Klemens von Metternich
(?)
Portrait of:
Elie Decazes
Portrait of:
John Adams
Portrait of:
Charles Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt
Portrait of:
Ponce Denis Écouchard-Lebrun
Portrait of:
Benjamin West
Portrait of:
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Portrait of:
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon
Portrait of:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Portrait of:
Carle Vernet
Portrait of:
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Portrait of:
Nicolas Poussin
Portrait of:
John Locke
Portrait of:
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux
Portrait of:
René Descartes
Portrait of:
Jean Louis Marc Alibert
Portrait of:
Philippe Pinel
Portrait of:
Marie François Xavier Bichat
Portrait of:
Dr Francis Joseph Gall
Portrait of:
Guillaume Dupuytren
Portrait of:
Georges Cuvier
Portrait of:
Antoine Dubois
(?)
Portrait of:
Herman Boerhaave
Portrait of:
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Galerie Universelle
Acquisition date
1753-1977
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1977,U.26-63