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Voltaire

Also known as: Voltaire; pseudonym: Voltaire; other name: Arouet, François Marie; other name: Arouet, François-Marie
Details: individual; academic/intellectual; author/poet; French; Male
Life dates: 1694-1778
Biography: Poet, historian, wit, philosopher and influential letter writer; in England in 1726-1728/9; in Switzerland 1753-1778, returning to Paris shortly before his death.
Bibliography: Garry Apgar, 'Nouvelles de l'Estampe', 135 1994, pp.5-45, 'Trois siècles d'iconographie voltairienne'

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banknote

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Museum number: 1926,1008.8.1-4 |
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Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

book of prints; print

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bust

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bust; relief

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bust

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coin

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drawing; sketch-book

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drawing

Museum number: 1959,0411.150 |
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Museum number: 1939,0726.5 |
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drawing

Museum number: 1960,0213.1 |
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drawing

Museum number: 1959,0411.152 |
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medallion

Museum number: 1923,1114.2.CR |
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portrait medallion

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Title: Voltaire |
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Museum number: 1900,1231.5357-5377 |
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Title: M. F. A. Voltaire Né à Paris le 20 février 1694... |
Museum number: 1901,1022.944 |
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Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Voltaire |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7759 |
Producer name: Print made by:Augustin de Saint-AubinAfter:Baron Dominique Vivant Denon |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

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Title: New Morality;-or- The Promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the hom |
Museum number: 1851,0901.930 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Voltaire |
Museum number: 1901,1022.952 |
Producer name: Print made by:J PassAfter:Maurice Quentin de La Tour |
Production date: 1828 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Bell's British Theatre |
Museum number: 1849,0721.1031-1034 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:William Wilson |
Production date: 1792-1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Arms of France. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.7189 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Hatchard |
Production date: 1803 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affili |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6818 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Ee,3.214 |
Producer name: After:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:Joseph Collyer |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Voltaire |
Museum number: 1872,1109.580 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Holloway JuniorAfter:Maurice Quentin de La Tour |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece; satirical print

Title: Justice and Liberty hanged, while Voltaire rides monster Humanity and Jean-Jacques Rousseau takes hi |
Museum number: 1863,0509.72 |
Producer name: After:Henry FuseliPrint made by:Charles Grignion |
Production date: 1767 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Patriotic regeneration, -viz.- parliament reform'd, a la francoise, -that is- honest men (i.e.-oppos |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mr Voltaire |
Museum number: 1874,0411.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:James TaylorPublished by:Thomas Bowen |
Production date: 1769 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mrs Yates in the character of Electra |
Museum number: K,66.172 |
Producer name: Print made by:John ThornthwaiteAfter:James Roberts II |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: Y,3.98 |
Producer name: After:Johann Ludwig FäschPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1772 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Voltaire |
Museum number: 1865,0520.174 |
Producer name: Print made by:John CondéPublished by:John Sewell |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Ee,5.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph CollyerAfter:Edward Edwards |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0909.36-47 |
Producer name: Printed by:W ClowesPublished by:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington |
Production date: 1880 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Jeannot and Colin. |
Museum number: 1837,0513.228 |
Producer name: After:Sir David WilkiePrint made by:Joseph Clarendon Smith |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Le Héros de Ferney au Théâtre de Châtelaine |
Museum number: K,68.184 |
Producer name: BIOG20116 Print made by:Thomas Orde Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton |
Production date: 1772

print; book-illustration

Title: Canto XXI |
Museum number: 1857,0217.112 |
Producer name: Print made by:James HeathAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1775-1834

print; book-illustration

Title: Henriade Book X |
Museum number: 1900,1231.5259 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert PollardAfter:Gravelot |
Production date: 1770-1790

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0613.794-805 |
Producer name: BIOG22771 Print made by:Daniel Chodowiecki |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:Berlin (city)

print; satirical print

Title: Saeculi Lumen |
Museum number: J,2.73 |
Producer name: After:Jean 'Voltaire' HuberPublished by:Aaron Arrowsmith |
Production date: 1798

print; satirical print; album

Title: Le Héros de Ferney au Théâtre de Châtelaine |
Museum number: 1931,0413.53 |
Producer name: BIOG20116 Print made by:Thomas Orde Powlett, 1st Baron Bolton |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: Tomb of Voltaire |
Museum number: 1900,1231.5425 |
Producer name: BIOG36324 Print made by:Wilson Lowry |
Production date: 1778-1824

print

Museum number: 1892,0714.756 |
Producer name: Print made by:François Louis CouchéAfter:Louis Jean François Lagrenée |
Production date: 1810

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Les vieilles monnaies. Études numismatiques. |
Museum number: 1896,0511.468.19 |
Producer name: BIOG44143 Print made by:Félicien Rops |
Production date: 1856

print

Title: Voltaire's house at Ferney |
Museum number: 1900,1231.5427 |
Producer name: BIOG27232 Print made by:Edward Finden |
Production date: 1816-1857

print; book-illustration

Title: Turenne |
Museum number: 1874,1114.305 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:Mlle Formentin |
Production date: 1825

print

Title: Johannes Bernoulli |
Museum number: 1838,1215.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:Georg Friedrich SchmidtAfter:Johann Rudolph Huber |
Production date: 1743

print; book-illustration

Title: Gabrielle |
Museum number: 1874,1114.302 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:August Selb |
Production date: 1825

print; book-illustration

Title: Guise, le Balafré |
Museum number: 1874,1114.257 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:Delpech |
Production date: 1825

print; book-illustration

Title: Harlay |
Museum number: 1874,1114.270 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:Delpech |
Production date: 1823

print; book-illustration

Title: Coligny |
Museum number: 1874,1114.242 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:Godefroy Engelmann I |
Production date: 1825

print

Title: Le Kain |
Museum number: 1914,0613.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:Augustin de Saint-AubinAfter:Simon Bernard Le Noir |
Production date: 1788

print; book-illustration

Title: Charles IX |
Museum number: 1874,1114.255 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Baptiste MauzaissePrinted by:Delpech |
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