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Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Française

Print
1804 (designed), 1888 (published)
Artist/Maker
Jean Duplessi-Bertaux (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Etching of the Duc d'Orleans being forced to salute the statue of Henry IV, from a volume bound in tooled red leather and inscribed with titles, of 22 scenes illustrating events during the French Revolution and the Directoire.


Object details

Categories
Politics
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Française (named collection)
  • Duc d'Orleans being forced to salute the statue of Henry IV (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching in a bound leather book
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Etching of the Duc d'Orleans being forced to salute the statue of Henry IV, from a red leather bound volume of 22 scenes illustrating events during the French Revolution and the Directoire. Taken from the 'Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Française'. France, 1804.
Physical description
Etching of the Duc d'Orleans being forced to salute the statue of Henry IV, from a volume bound in tooled red leather and inscribed with titles, of 22 scenes illustrating events during the French Revolution and the Directoire.
Dimensions
  • Cut to average size height: 1.75in
  • Cut to average size width: 5.125in
  • In volume height: 4.5in
  • In volume width: 8.25in
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Credit line
Given by Mrs. B. Willoughby
Subjects depicted
Duc D'Orleans
French Revolution
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.396-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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