Button
1789-1790 (made)
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This is one button of a set of eighteen (nos. T.39 to 39Q-1948).
At this period sets of men's suit buttons were often topical in design. These are set with satin printed with the likeness and names of persons politically prominent in the early stages of the French Revolution. Some of them are: the advocate Louis-Ferdinand Bonnet (1760-1839), member of the States General and a leader of the anti-royalist party Le Comte Charles Malo François de Lameth (1757-1832), writer, orator and political reformer Dominique-Joseph Garat le jeune (1749-1833), orator and constitutional reformer Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte Mirabeau (1749-91), Director-General of finance to Louis XVI, Charles-Frederick Necker (1726-1804), President of the Constituent Assembly Jacques-Guillaume Thouret (1746-94).
At this period sets of men's suit buttons were often topical in design. These are set with satin printed with the likeness and names of persons politically prominent in the early stages of the French Revolution. Some of them are: the advocate Louis-Ferdinand Bonnet (1760-1839), member of the States General and a leader of the anti-royalist party Le Comte Charles Malo François de Lameth (1757-1832), writer, orator and political reformer Dominique-Joseph Garat le jeune (1749-1833), orator and constitutional reformer Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte Mirabeau (1749-91), Director-General of finance to Louis XVI, Charles-Frederick Necker (1726-1804), President of the Constituent Assembly Jacques-Guillaume Thouret (1746-94).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gilt, glass and printed silk satin button. Contained in a hexagonal glazed frame. |
| Brief description | Silk satin, copperplate-printed portrait of a political figure from the French Revolution; France, about 1790 |
| Physical description | This is one button of a set of eighteen (nos. T.39 to 39Q-1948). At this period sets of men's suit buttons were often topical in design. These are set with satin printed with the likeness and names of persons politically prominent in the early stages of the French Revolution. Some of them are: the advocate Louis-Ferdinand Bonnet (1760-1839), member of the States General and a leader of the anti-royalist party Le Comte Charles Malo François de Lameth (1757-1832), writer, orator and political reformer Dominique-Joseph Garat le jeune (1749-1833), orator and constitutional reformer Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, Comte Mirabeau (1749-91), Director-General of finance to Louis XVI, Charles-Frederick Necker (1726-1804), President of the Constituent Assembly Jacques-Guillaume Thouret (1746-94). |
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| Credit line | Given by C. W. Dyson Perrins |
| Object history | The subject of this button is a politicial figure from the French Revolution. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, p. 340 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.39G-1948 |
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| Record created | May 20, 2009 |
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