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L'Huître: 24.K.12-239

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

L'Huître
Les Fables de La Motte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillot, Claude

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1719

Note

One of 68 plates originally conceived as book-illustatrations for 'Fables Nouvelles Dédiées au Roi par M. De La Motte, de l'Académie Françoise, Avec un Discours sur la Fable' (1719, Dupuis, Paris). Unfinished state: see 24.K.12-240 for a later state.

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Engraving
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: 24.K.12-239
Primary reference Number: 181949
Populus (Gillot): 55 I/II
BN Inventaire (18thC): 55
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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