print;
ornament print
- Museum number
- 1983,1105.2
- Title
- Series: Essay de papilloneries humaines
- Description
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Title: a high pyramid decorated with garlands of flowers by butterflies, with fireworks exploding around it. c.1756/60
Etching
- Production date
- 1756-1760
- Dimensions
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Height: 330 millimetres
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Width: 237 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From his second series of six plates, all in vertical format, representing butterflies pictured in human activities; see 'Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814', Baltimore 1984, cat. 35.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1995 Feb-April, Manchester, Whitworth AG (Sth Bank), The Grotesque
1995 April-June, Exeter, Royal Albert Mem Mus (Sth Bank), The Grotesque
1995 Oct-Nov, Leeds City AG & Mus (Sth Bank), The Grotesque
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,1105.2
