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Object Type
Museum number: Ii,13.120
Title: Object: Mdme Chevalier
Description: Portrait, whole-length, of Madame Chevalier in the character of Virginie, running lightly up from right to an african who sits under a tree, a basket on the floor beside him, giving him water which she has scooped from a stream behind her; after Henard; final proof numbered 9. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: James Ward; After: Charles Hénard
School/style
Production date: 1799
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 510 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (14.I); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (9.I)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Madame Chevalier; Illustration to: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre; Illustration to: James Cobb
Associated titles: Associated Title: Paul et Virginie (1788); Associated Title: Paul and Virginia
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1817
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Ii,13.120
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1979,U.1165

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