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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.1477
Title: Object: Le Petit Implacable
Description: A young boy holding a pet bird, shown three-quarters length directed to left; after Schenau. Hand-coloured mezzotint, damaged in the upper left background with paper stuck from the facing page
Producer name: Print made by: Gabriel Bodenehr II; After: Johann Eleazar Schenau; Published by: Carington Bowles
School/style: British; German
Production date: 1766-1799 (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 163 millimetres; Width: 118 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: From a group of small popular prints bound together between blue marbled boards (250 x 170mm; 2010,7081.1467-1477). They comprise a three related French satires, one other French print, and two sets of mezzotints published by Carington Bowles with French and German inscriptions, one of the Senses, the other showing allegory or character traits (of which this is one).
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.1477

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