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Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Française

Print
1804 (designed), 1888 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Etching of Camille Desmoulins at the Palais-Royal, Paris, 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
Object type
Titles
  • Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Française (named collection)
  • Camille Desmoulins at the Palais-Royal (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Etching in a bound leather book
Brief description
Etching of Camille Desmoulins at the Palais-Royal, Paris, 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 Camille Desmoulins at the Palais-Royal, Paris, 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
Place depicted
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
Accession number
E.378-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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