drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- SL,5236.98
- Description
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Scene from a ballet performed by the court of France; Louis XIV and the Duke of Guise and others on horseback, soldiers standing between, cavalry in the background, all in an ornamental border with scrolls and French royal arms, supported and surmounted by trumpeting angels and warriors; a preparatory study for a print of 1670
Pen and black ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1662-1670
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Width: 181 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A preparatory design for a print with which it is mounted (1969,0614.4: see IFF 1089). The print is the tail-piece on p.64 of the 1670 folio edition of Charles Perrault, 'Courses de Testes et de Bague faittes par le Roy et par les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour en l'année 1662'. (Information from Dr Terence Allott, April 1999)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5236.98
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,21.98