print
- Museum number
- 2001,0520.58
- Title
- Object: Liberté
- Description
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Allegorical female figure of Liberty on classical throne holding Phrygian cap aloft and club, with the defeated Hydra, a symbol of Despotism, at her feet. 1792
Aquatint and etching, with the original supplementary grey-blue border decorated with chain device pasted around the margins, in the lower centre of which is a paper ticket with the publication details.
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 445 millimetres
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Width: 337 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to a print (described in De Vinck, 6053) representing Equality. See Gisela Gramaccini, 'Jean-Guillaume Moitte, Leben und Werke', Berlin 1993, cat.191 and 192.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Jun-Nov, BM, Recent Acquisitions Part I, no cat.
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,0520.58
