Le Couronnement de Voltaire, Le 30 Mars 1778, by Jean Michel Moreau

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Le Couronnement de Voltaire, Le 30 Mars 1778. Moreau, Jean Michel the younger (French, 1741-1814). Pen, black ink and brown wash on paper, the sheet folded vertically, centre, height 183 mm, width 236 mm.

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Accession Number: PD.92-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 795 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 210.36kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2019:01:04 10:43:05

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